AESTHETICS AND JUDGMENT: “WHY KANT GOT IT RIGHT”

The article argues that although all scholars within aesthetics basically know and recognize it, there is a tendency in many of its traditions to forget or to underestimate the importance of the aesthetic judgment. With Thierry de Duve’s short paper “Why Kant got it Right” as its point of departure, this importance is discussed. Not only its importance in aesthetic relations and to aesthetics as a discipline, but also in a broader sense, through the contribution to the overall social cohesion of society, offered by aesthetic judgments. All judgments are pronounced as-if a shared scale of aesthetic preferences did exist (which it does not). Judgments are addressed to communities, to the notion of a joint “we”, and thus they do participate in the creation and the maintenance of the social as such. Also professional aesthetic critique, including art critique, should be aware of that, since even historically achieved differentiations and divisions of labour may be lost again if not being developed and kept up to date

The Borderlines of Aesthetics/Estetikens gränser

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Aesthetics and Border Lines.

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Operation:Orfeo - its Act of Enunciation

Operation:Orfeo is a theatrical spectacle of a very particular nature, lasting some 80 minutes. It unfolds in a separate scenic space mounted on the stage. This scenic space is comprised of a thick picture frame surrounding a square space, measuring 6x6 meters, inside which a staircase is mounted, across the entire width of the square, from top to bottom. The stairs are lit in such a way that the space does not unfold unambiguously both horizontally and vertically (as staircases usually do). It primarily appears vertical, as a surface provided with a horizontal grid, fastened in a picture frame. In this room, on these stairs, a total of 14 players sing in different positions all through the performance.&nbsp

Aesthetics and its Future. Problems and Perspectives

This presentation argues that the question about “future” presupposesan analysis of the current state of the discipline, which again in turnmust be seen in the light of its history. The presentation then unfolds a roughreconstruction of that history from Baumgarten and Kant, over Romanticism’sestablishing of the partnership with Art and Truth in the continental traditionand up to 20th century’s settling with especially that tradition, led by endeavoursboth within art itself, in the art sciences, and in different branches ofphilosophical aesthetics. On the basis of this, it finally discusses the future ofaesthetics: its status as a scholarly discipline, the need for it in our world, andproposes some issues to be at aesthetics’ future agenda of research

Pornografiens dobbelte obskønitet

Morten Kyndrup: Pornografiens dobbelte obskønitet - Lille note om pornografi, udsigelse og litteratur

Performativitet, æstetik, udsigelse: Lille note om det performatives æstetik

In this investigation into the notion and theories of performativity, especially as they have developed in Germany and Scandinavia over the last few years, Morten Kyndrup places performativity in a broader field of aesthetic theory and analysis in order to qualify its distinctive traits and possible resources for aesthetic thinking

Frihedens tvang – tvangens frihed

Morten Kyndrup beskriver via Oulipo, Laboratoriet for potentiel litteratur, hvordan systemet forstået som form måske akkurat i sin mest rigide form rækker ud mod verden. Hvordan friheden gennem tvang, kunsten gennem det arbitrære system, kan komme til sin ret