Sam Moore
- Hal Foster
- Jean Baudrillard
- Douglas Crimp
- Kenneth Frampton
- Jürgen Habermas
- Fredric Jameson
- Rosalind E. Krauss
- Craig Owens
- Edward W. Said
- Gregory Ulmer
A serious ranking of contributors to The Anti-Aesthetic in order of readability:
Edward Said
Douglas Crimp
Rosalind Krauss
Frederic Jameson
Craig Owens
Jurgen Habermas
Kenneth Frampton
Jean Baudrillard
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Struck by how this an After the End of Art both talk about modernism -- a stripping back, a search for purity, a kind of formal absolutism -- as much as by its post- The questions here about rebellion and mass culture are interesting but I was really struck by was how some of the contributors attack things from an angle that feels very contemporary and alive decades later; Craig Owens' essay on feminism was a real pleasant surprised.
Shoutout to Said specifically for being more readable than his comrades; for approaching theory and academic discipline in a way that, perhaps in a way that feels most appropriate for postmodernism, asks for more: for an understanding of theory and politics and pedagogy that refuses to be siloed into one, ornamental thing.
This kind of dense theory is always a bit of a fight for me to get through, its been a while since I was in the academy; but I always get a lot from it, should read more of it, keep the muscle limber
A serious ranking of contributors to The Anti-Aesthetic in order of readability:
Edward Said
Douglas Crimp
Rosalind Krauss
Frederic Jameson
Craig Owens
Jurgen Habermas
Kenneth Frampton
Jean Baudrillard
***
Struck by how this an After the End of Art both talk about modernism -- a stripping back, a search for purity, a kind of formal absolutism -- as much as by its post- The questions here about rebellion and mass culture are interesting but I was really struck by was how some of the contributors attack things from an angle that feels very contemporary and alive decades later; Craig Owens' essay on feminism was a real pleasant surprised.
Shoutout to Said specifically for being more readable than his comrades; for approaching theory and academic discipline in a way that, perhaps in a way that feels most appropriate for postmodernism, asks for more: for an understanding of theory and politics and pedagogy that refuses to be siloed into one, ornamental thing.
This kind of dense theory is always a bit of a fight for me to get through, its been a while since I was in the academy; but I always get a lot from it, should read more of it, keep the muscle limber