Against Value in the Arts and Education (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ladkin, Sam; Bojesen, Emile; Mckay, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art's defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people's lives lived in an "audit culture", a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability.

This book diagnoses the counter-intuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people's work-lives, their education, and increasingly their everyday experience. The book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation fostered by the dogma of value. It argues instead that value judgments can behave insidiously, and incorporate aesthetic, ethical or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the "value" they purportedly name and describe. The collection contains contributions from leading scholars in the UK and US with contributions from anthropology, the history of art, literature, education, musicology, political science, and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783484911
• Artikelnr.: 45094867

Autorenporträt

Edited by Sam Ladkin; Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction: Against Value
Sam Ladkin
Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen / Part I. Critique / 2. The Authority of Value
and Abjection from Value
Marilyn Strathern / 3. Post-critical
Hal Foster / 4. Invaluable Elephants
or The Against-Value of Critique (for Animals)
Robert McKay / 5. Enlightenment Against Value? Two Intuitions and Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste'
Tom Jones / 6. Bargain-Basement Thought
Jonathan P. Eburne / 7. Techno-Criticism and/against the Value of the Flesh
Fabienne Collignon / Part II. Arts / 8. Useless Commodities
Disposable Bodies: An Essay on Value and Waste
Rob Halpern / 9. Art and Devalorization: Asger Jorn's Theory of Value
Karen Kurczynski / 10. Art = Capital? Reflections on Joseph Beuys' Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977
Christian Lotz /11. Value and Abjection: Listening to Music with Edward W. Said
Rachel Beckles Willson / 12. Intransigent Play: Detail
Form and Interpretation in the Music of Derek Bailey
Dominic Lash / 13. 'The nice thing about value is that everyone has it': Art & Anthropology Despite Culture
Sam Ladkin / 14. Rimbaud
the Occasion of Poetry
and the Walls of Our Schools
Geoff Gilbert / Part III. Education / 15. Saying No! Profligacy versus Austerity
or Metaphor against Model in Justifying the Arts and Humanities in the Contemporary University
Griselda Pollock / 16. The Teleology of Education and the Metaphysics of Contingency
Peter Thompson / 17. Value: Critical Pedagogy
Participatory Art and Higher Education - A New Measure and Meaning of the Common(s)
Mike Neary / 18. Educational Value: Contingency and the Learning 'Subject'
Marie Morgan / 19. Negative Aesthetic Education
Emile Bojesen / Index