Day organises her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T.J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory.
Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects—and with it critical distance— and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture.' - from book flap
Includes index.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Onsite
English
art theory,  art criticism,  architecture
2011
308
9780231149389
1
monograph
Introduction
T. J. Clark and the Pain of the Unattainable Beyond
Looking the Negative in the Face: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School of Architecture
Absolute Dialectical Unrest, Or, the Diziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder
The Immobilizations of Social Abstraction
Afterword: Abstract and Transitive Possibilities
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