sobre Javier Sanjinés C., Mestizaje <i>Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia.</i>

Aesthetic judgement of orientation in modern art

When creating an artwork, the artist makes a decision regarding the orientation at which the work is to be hung based on their aesthetic judgement and the message conveyed by the piece. Is the impact or aesthetic appeal of a work diminished when it is hung at an incorrect orientation? To investigate this question, Experiment 1 asked whether naïve observers can appreciate the correct orientation...

The modern aesthetic mixed restorative case.

Javier Bianchi

We study optimal macroprudential policy in a model in which unconventional shocks, in the form of news about future fundamentals and regime changes in world interest rates, interact with collateral constraints in driving the dynamics of financial crises. These shocks strengthen incentives to borrow in good times (i.e. when “good news” about future fundamentals coincide with a low-world-interest...

Marcuse's Aesthetic Politics: Ideology-critique and Socialist Ontology

art contains the sensuous appearance of the Idea, the symbol of a rationality of reason that is beyond words [1], Art was not language for Hegel because it is non-discursive; it gave form to hidden, ineffable content. Marcuse in his later work came to regard art as the last refiige of critical insights in a totally mobilized society. In his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), he rejoins ...

The Politics of the Aesthetic: Cricket, Literature and Culture

Whilst in recent years a number of historians and sociologists have analysed sports as social, cultural and economic processes, relatively few have considered the cultural and ideological implications of sport as an object of representation. This thesis aims to intervene in such debates by considering the emergence and development of the discourse of cricket, a sport intimately associated with ...