The aesthetic expressions produced and reproduced within post-war spectacular youth
(sub) cultures used to be seen as a display of resistance to and subversion of 'social order' …

Note: In this extract from his longer study of 'Skinhead culture'John Clarke describes the way
this subculture focuses around the notions of 'community'and 'territory'. Skinhead culture …

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open
up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the …

Mona Hatoum's video installation Corps étranger is an example of an artwork that critically
comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the colonization of …

For many decades scholars have debated about the limits and possibilities of oppositional
sub-cultures ofyouth and adolescents. Early works focused on the extent to which these sub …

Much of the debate surrounding the scholarship of music-based youth cultures has been
organised around an epistemological assumption that focuses upon the discursive and …

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the
essentialism associated with notions of" critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the …

Inter-national in the largest sense, the books collected in the Studies in International
Performance series display a range of historical, theoretical and critical approaches to the …

Recent publications in everyday aesthetics have generated discussion about the definition
and description of everyday aesthetic experience.[1] Long animated by off-beat observations …

In May 2010 I was invited by Spanish curator, Aimar Arriola, to participate in a project
entitled Style/As Resistance sponsored by the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design …