The Aesthetics of Neutrality, or Escape from the Identical

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • N. Kandioler
  • U. Meurer
  • V. Öhner
  • A. Seier
Book title ESCAPE! Strategien des Entkommens
Book subtitle Forschungstagung des tfm Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Wien
Event Escape – Strategien des Entkommens
Number of pages 17
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract The functional reduction of language to transparent communication manifests itself in the often violent cultural conflicts in contemporary geopolitics. Deploying Roland Barthes' notion of "the neutral" through analyses of three artistic projects, an "aesthetics of neutrality" is figured as a counter-strategy which escapes linguistic clarity. The aesthetics of neutrality is both a cultural strategy and a political intervention that helps forge figurations which escape identitarian logic while emphasizing troublingly productive forms of being-in-relation.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://escape.univie.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dasgupta-escape.pdf https://escape.univie.ac.at/the-aesthetics-of-neutrality/ https://www.academia.edu/13582060/The_Aesthetics_of_Neutrality_or_Escape_from_the_Identical
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