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 …

In today's critical discussion of literature, art, and aesthetic issues there seems to be an
unbridgeable gap between two camps, between those who adhere to the doctrines of …

In this chapter, the author aims to make a case that Foucault does indeed have a viable
conception of critical agency. The issue of critical agency emerges implicitly and explicitly …

Several critics of Foucault, notably Alan Megill and Jürgen Habermas, accuse Foucault of
being an 'aestheticist'. As such, Foucault fails to realise that the very appeal to aesthetics is …

The resurgence of interest in the Exquisite Corpse in the last decade gives us reason to
theorize in more contemporary terms about an artistic phenomenon that at first glance …

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' …

Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his
earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines …

Even in the age of technical reproduction, a longing for immediacy has been maintained.
Things seem to have a life on their own; they can enchant, fascinate, frighten and enthral …

In this article, I consider Michael Fried's recent contribution to the debate about the
experience of video art, made in relation to the work of Douglas Gordon. Fried speculates …

In what follows I put forward an idea of contemporary art practice as a form of myth-science,
itself defined as a kind of fictioning of reality. Most of what follows has been developed in …