Curated Group: Aesthetics Now

What are aesthetics in our contemporary moment?  This is a group of essays that reframe aesthetics in painting, music, poetry, sculpture, drama, and biopolitics from a multiplicity of perspectives.  Ranging in subject from ancient theater to imagined African cities, together they offer new ways of seeing, experiencing, and understanding both the past and the future.

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  An Alternative Paradigm for Studying and Performing Athenian Drama

  — Mary-Kay Gamel —

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  How Should We Read a Painting Now?

  — Kate Flint —

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  Islamicate Cosmopolitan: A Past Without a Future, Or a Future Still Unfolding?

  — Bruce Lawrence —

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  On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

  — Ari Larissa Heinrich —

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  On Close Reading and Sound Recording

  — Michael Gallope —

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  Persian Literature and Educating the Whole Person

  — Fatemeh Keshavarz —

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  The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession

  — C2: J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak —

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  Visions of the Body: Embodied Simulation and Aesthetic Experience

  — Vittorio Gallese —

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  "Illuminating the Hole": Kinshasa’s Makeovers Between Dream and Reality

  — Filip de Boeck —

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  Project Orfeo at Baldwin Theater

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  Words and Music: A Conversation with Author Richard Powers

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  Ari Larissa Heinrich

  — University of California, San Diego —

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  Bruce Lawrence

  — Duke University —

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  C2: J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak

  — Duke University and University of North Carolina, Greensboro —

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  Fatemeh Keshavarz

  — University of Maryland —

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  Filip de Boeck

  — KU Leuven, Belgium —

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  Kate Flint

  — University of Southern California —

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  Mary-Kay Gamel

  — University of California, Santa Cruz —

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  Michael Gallope

  — University of Minnesota —

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  Vittorio Gallese

  — University of Parma, Italy —