Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism Deconstructing the Oral Eye

by jagodzinski, jan

• ISBN13: 9780230618794
• ISBN10: 0230618790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.

Author Biography

jan jagodzinski is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the  University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches visual art and media education and curricular issues as they relate to postmodern concerns of gender politics, cultural studies, and media (film and television). He is a founding member of the Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education (NAEA), past editor of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTE), past president of SIG Media, Culture and Curriculum, Editorial Board Member for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (PCS), Advisory Board for Journal of Lacanian Studies (JLS), Review Board for Studies in Art Education (SAE), Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT), Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (JCRAE), Visual Culture & Gender; Co-series editor with Mark Bracher, book series Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis, Transformation (Palgrave). He is the author of The Anamorphic I/i (1996); Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education (1997); Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&Art Education (1997); Editor of Pedagogical Desire: Transference, Seduction and the Question of Ethics (2002); Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media (Palgrave, 2004); Musical Fantasies: A Lacanian Approach (Palgrave, 2005); Television and Youth: Televised Paranoia, (Palgrave, 2008), Arts Based Research: A Critique and Proposal (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture	p. 1
Capturing Affect	p. 2
Commodity of Desire	p. 5
Capitalist Iconoclasm	p. 7
Spectacular Tensions	p. 10
Desire of Commodity	p. 12
Bodily Woes	p. 13
The Synoptic Assemblage	p. 14
Designer Affect	p. 15
Deconstructing the Oral Eye
Situating the Oral Eye in Designer Capitalism	p. 21
Affective Capture	p. 21
Designing Difference	p. 23
Containing Monsters	p. 26
Make-Up and Over	p. 30
The Digital Dot	p. 33
Steigler's Techne	p. 37
The Fundamental Antagonism of Art & Design	p. 41
Schiller/Kant Problematic	p. 42
Art Becomes Life	p. 45
Life Becomes Art	p. 49
Designer Education/New Media	p. 53
Historical Antecedents: The Rise of the Unconscious in Artistic Practice	p. 59
The Artistic Fragment	p. 59
Repressed Geist	p. 63
Unconscious Genealogy	p. 65
Ruining Representation
On Visual Regimes and Their Shadows	p. 73
On Visual Regimes	p. 73
Readerly Regimes	p. 75
Machinic Vision	p. 79
Virilio's Disappearances	p. 82
Kairotic Time	p. 84
Actuarial Real Time	p. 87
Virilio's Shadow	p. 90
Visual Cultural Studies and Its Discontents	p. 93
Difference and Sameness	p. 94
Fantasy Formations	p. 100
Cynical Savvy Viewers	p. 104
An Avant-Garde without Authority: Can Art (Still) Be Progressive?	p. 109
The Force of Art as Event: Postaesthetics	p. 109
Fabulations	p. 113
Art of Xpression and E(motion)	p. 116
Avant-Garde without Authority	p. 120
Art and Its Education in Designer Capitalism
The Force of Art: Post-Situationism	p. 127
Relational Aesthetics?	p. 127
Post-Situationist In(design)	p. 130
Disruptive Forcework	p. 132
Rhizomatic Forcework	p. 135
Forcework of Productive Reassemblage	p. 137
Forcework of Alternative Information	p. 137
Statement	p. 139
Alain Badiou's Challenge to Art Education: The Truth of Art, the Art of Truth	p. 141
Introducing Badiou	p. 141
The Unprecedented Event	p. 144
Truth of Art	p. 146
Configurations as Truth	p. 147
Romantic Misdirection	p. 150
Art Lessons from Badiou	p. 152
Between Creativity and Innovation? How to Become a Traitor in Art Education	p. 155
Creativity Innovation	p. 155
W(h)ither Creativity?	p. 157
Creativity Proper	p. 160
Learning to Learn	p. 163
A Traitor in Art Education	p. 165
Lessons for Art Educators: Encounters with the Real
Between Deleuze Badiou: The Event	p. 171
Topologies	p. 171
Dice Throw	p. 177
Problematics vs. Axiomatics	p. 179
A Continued Tension	p. 181
The Art Diagrammatic as In(design): Affective Encounters	p. 183
Kant Again	p. 184
Lacan Deleuze on Ethics	p. 185
Two Strategies	p. 188
In(design) Circuits	p. 189
Overloaded Circuits of Bill Viola	p. 190
Overdesigned Circuits: Thomas Hirschhorn	p. 191
Short Circuits: Alfredo Jaar	p. 193
Anamorphic Circuits: Krysztof Wodiczko	p. 196
Bioart-techno Circuits: Eduardo Kac	p. 197
Reorienting Art Education for a Post-Posthuman Age
From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its Education	p. 201
Self-RefleXivity: The Disturbed Spectator	p. 204
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 223
Index	p. 245
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