This essay engages an undertheorized form of democratic agency: the embodied spectacle
that characterizes a strain of activist politics. Where an existing literature addresses “the …

… entrepreneurship’, we seek to highlight the links between contemporary beauty politics and
… Like the neoliberal subject more broadly, the aesthetic entrepreneur is autonomous, self-…

… By agential autonomy, we mean a conscious human subject’s practical agency according to
… agential autonomy, then s/he is also thereby a human person. And by relational autonomy, …

… This article argues for a new interpretation of the realist claim that politics is autonomous
from morality and involves specific political values. First, this article defends an original …

… outside of and opposed to objects of knowledge autonomous, neutral, abstract, and purified
… the aesthetic scaling of bodies with the authorita tiveness of object truth. All bodies can be …

A period of political rupture such as that in which nation-states find themselves now is by
definition a period in which the master narrative of a society is in flux. Populations undergoing …

… of science, aesthetics, and a new … aesthetic autonomy in the eighteenth century. In bringing
together well- known scholars working on British and German eighteenth- century aesthetics, …

… kind of body politic rules and by whom and for what purposes it functions. The body politic
is … Malfunctioning of the body politic then depends-at least in the first instance-on who is not …

… What equality is to the body politic— its innermost principle— discrimination is to society.
Society is that curious, somewhat hybrid realm between the political and the private in which, …

… political conception of the city" and warns against approaching such projects with modern
notions of an autonomous aesthetic … the heroic instincts of the body politic; outside, the square …