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In “Genealogy of the Image: Art, Memory, Motion, Mass Culture,” I begin by briefly describing my ongoing project to develop a theory of modern democracy as an aesthetic phenomenon that may be productive of a new form of enlightenment, one based on an aesthetic form of reason.. Here I review my efforts to conceptualize an aesthetic form of individuality and to uncover the aesthetic dimensions of mass culture by showing the ways it reproduces philosophically significant properties of modern art in a different cultural form. Following this review I sketch an approach to showing the aesthetic significance of the still image in mass culture. First turning to Adorno, I argue that still images of the sort with which mass culture surrounds us possess many of the features he attached to the modern artwork. Finally, I turn to Bergson, to whose work, Matter and Memory, the paper is largely devoted, to show that his theory of perception can allow us to develop a genealogy of the image that would enable us to exercise greater power over our perceptual experience, time, the body, and the materiality of the world, and to participate in a universal form of becoming to which these freedoms can be tied. |
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| Schoolman, Morton. "Genealogy of the Image: Art, Memory, Motion, Mass Culture" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211484_index.html> |
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| Schoolman, M. , 2007-08-30 "Genealogy of the Image: Art, Memory, Motion, Mass Culture" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211484_index.html |
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Abstract: In “Genealogy of the Image: Art, Memory, Motion, Mass Culture,” I begin by briefly describing my ongoing project to develop a theory of modern democracy as an aesthetic phenomenon that may be productive of a new form of enlightenment, one based on an aesthetic form of reason.. Here I review my efforts to conceptualize an aesthetic form of individuality and to uncover the aesthetic dimensions of mass culture by showing the ways it reproduces philosophically significant properties of modern art in a different cultural form. Following this review I sketch an approach to showing the aesthetic significance of the still image in mass culture. First turning to Adorno, I argue that still images of the sort with which mass culture surrounds us possess many of the features he attached to the modern artwork. Finally, I turn to Bergson, to whose work, Matter and Memory, the paper is largely devoted, to show that his theory of perception can allow us to develop a genealogy of the image that would enable us to exercise greater power over our perceptual experience, time, the body, and the materiality of the world, and to participate in a universal form of becoming to which these freedoms can be tied. |
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| Genealogy of the Image: Art Memory Motion Mass Culture Morton Schoolman State University of New York at Albany Modern democracy in its American form is an aesthetic phenomenon both at its core and in the ways its core principles are formed into political institutions and social practices. America’s aesthetic dimensions have been emerging and developing gradually at least since Tocqueville wrote about its fledgling form. And there is evidence for America’s aesthetic dimensions in Democracy in America if with |
| culture circulates are largely though not entirely those which also sharpen and thin the 19 Matter and Memory 275. 51 memories that condition our perceptual experience. A genealogy of the image is thus timely. Our mass culture of images has prepared the grounds for its arrival yet at the same time much if not most of the images it offers belie the work it would do. For mass culture intends the image to deny the freedom the image promises. |
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