Materiality, Race, and Speculative Aesthetics

The papers in this forum on Spaces and Politics of Aesthetics share a concern with analyzing relationships between politics aesthetics ways that question humanist, anthropocentric logics underpinning dominant aesthetic regimes power. They do so by foregrounding more-than-human materialities critical analyses race colonial In introduction, we begin routing debates around spaces through post-humanist, new-materialist, post-colonial trajectories. We also highlight theoretical reference points animate many the contributions to forum, focusing disruption Glissant, Rancière, Benjamin. then move guide reader along two different routes collection, first material aesthetics, race.