User:Laurier Rochon/readingnotes/the politics of aesthetics

• Aesthetics refers to a specific regime for identifying and reflecting on the arts: a mode of articulation between ways of doing and making, their corresponding forms of visibility, and possible ways of thinking about their relationships. (presupposing a certain idea of thought's effectivity).

• (or, the system of a priori forms determining what presents itself to sense experience)

• Distribution of the sensible: system of self-evident facts of sense perception that simultaneously discloses the existence of something in common and the delimitations that define the respective parts and positions within it.

• The distribution of the sensible reveals who can have a share in what is common to the community based on what they do and on the time and space in which this activity is performed.

• Artistic practices : ways of doing and making

• 3 ways of distributing the sensible that structure the manner in which the arts can be perceived and thought of as forms of art and as forms that inscribe a sense of community : writing, theatre and choreography (chorus?)

• 3 major regimes of identification : 1) ethical regime of images 2)

• The aesthetic regime of the arts stands in contracts with the representative regime.

• 'Mimemic barrier?'

• Aesthetic regime of the arts = modernity?

• In order for the mechanical arts to be ble to confer visibility on the masses, or rather on anonymous individuals, they first beed to be recognized as arts.