Abstract

Welcome to the second issue of the re-designed Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. Although this issue is without an overall theme the five articles it comprises are more or less explicitly connected through their historically informed analyses and reflections on different dynamics of the relationship between aesthetics and politics that are currently in operation.

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  • Welcome to the second issue of the re-designed Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. This issue is without an overall theme the five articles it comprises are more or less explicitly connected through their historically informed analyses and reflections on different dynamics of the relationship between aesthetics and politics that are currently in operation

  • Marit Grøtta offers an historical analysis whose subject is a practice that unfolds in Paris, namely Baudelaire’s media aesthetics of the mid-19th century

  • Her article “Photography Clichés: On Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics and the Mechanical Arts” shows how Baudelaire explored the new media of his time and argues that he developed a media aesthetics of his own

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Introduction

Welcome to the second issue of the re-designed Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. this issue is without an overall theme the five articles it comprises are more or less explicitly connected through their historically informed analyses and reflections on different dynamics of the relationship between aesthetics and politics that are currently in operation.Within the framework of visual culture studies and building upon Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the political domain as a “space of appearance” Nicholas Mirzoeff reviews the possibility of such a space under the authoritarian nationalism that Trump and Brexit stand for. With reference to the movements of the South African Rhodes Must Fall, Occupy Wall Street, Free University and Antiuniversity Mirzoeff – in the article “Empty the Museum, Decolonize the Curriculum, Open Theory” – explores how higher education can be reorganized in order to facilitate the appearance of those who are excluded from the present space of representation; “to imagine and create that hitherto non-existent America in which Black lives do matter”.

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