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Pleasure Pillars by Shahzia Sikander (2001), RISD graduate, Pakistani-US artist and Islamicate cosmopolitan. In Daftari.

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 —

  • How Should We Read a Painting Now?

    — Kate Flint —

  • Pleasure Pillars by Shahzia Sikander (2001), RISD graduate, Pakistani-US artist and Islamicate cosmopolitan. In Daftari.

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

    — Bruce Lawrence —

  • On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

    — Ari Larissa Heinrich —

  • On Close Reading and Sound Recording

    — Michael Gallope —

  • Persian Literature and Educating the Whole Person

    — Fatemeh Keshavarz —

  • The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession

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

  • Visions of the Body: Embodied Simulation and Aesthetic Experience

    — Vittorio Gallese —

  • Pume Bylex's Tourist City

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

    — Filip de Boeck —

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  • Ari Larissa Heinrich

    — University of California, San Diego —

  • Bruce Lawrence

    — Duke University —

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    — Duke University and University of North Carolina, Greensboro —

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    Fatemeh Keshavarz

    — University of Maryland —

  • Filip de Boeck portrait

    Filip de Boeck

    — KU Leuven, Belgium —

  • Kate Flint

    — University of Southern California —

  • Mary-Kay Gamel

    — University of California, Santa Cruz —

  • Michael Gallope

    — University of Minnesota —

  • Vittorio Gallese

    — University of Parma, Italy —

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