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Cognitive Disability Aesthetics : Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference / by Fraser, Benjamin

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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. …”
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The Aesthetics of Global Protest : Visual Culture and Communication /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the aesthetics of global protest : visual culture and communication / Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut -- Queer visual activism in South Africa / Tessa Lewin -- The use of visibility in contentious events in Northern Ireland / Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova -- Maybe, we will benefit from our neighbour's good fortune : an exhibition on collectivity, community, and dialogue in Turkey / Işıl Eğrikavuk -- Political street art in social mobilization : a tale of two protests in Argentina / Holly Eva Ryan -- Archiving dissent : (im)material trajectories of political street art in Istanbul and Athens / Julia Tulke -- The introvert's protest : handwriting the constitution and the performance of politics / Interview with Morgan O'Hara by Aidan McGarry -- Photography and protest in Israel/Palestine : The Activestills Online Archive / Simon Faulkner -- Drones, cinema, and protest in Thailand / Noah Viernes -- Bearing witness to authoritarianism and commoning through video activism and political film-making after the Gezi protests / Özge Özdüzen -- Music videos as protest communication: the Gezi Park protest on YouTube / Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Güçdemir, Umut Korkut, and Aidan McGarry -- The activist chroniclers of Occupy Gezi : counterposing visibility to injustice / Dan Mercea and Helton Levy -- When Twitter got #woke : Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the appropriation of the aesthetics of protest / Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Safiya Umoja Noble, and Hannah Guy -- Conclusion : reflections on protest and political transformation since 1789 / Jim Aulich.…”
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Sex, Identity, Aesthetics : The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies /

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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetics and deism -- Shaftesburian disinterestedness -- Addison's aesthetics of the novel -- The conversation piece : politeness and subversion -- The "Great Creation" : Fielding -- Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne -- The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children -- From novel to strange to "sublime" -- From novel to picturesque -- The novelizing of Hogarth.…”
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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics : Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic / by Bloom, Lisa E., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the heroic sublime to environments of global decline -- Antarctica and the contemporary sublime in intersectional feminist art practices -- Reclaiming the Arctic through feminist and Black aesthetic perspectives -- At memory's edge : collaborative perspectives on climate trauma in Arctic cinema -- Disappearing ice and missing data : contemporary art and indigenous and collaborative approaches / Lisa E. …”
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The Pathos of the Real : On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / by Buch, Robert

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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

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Violent Embrace : Art and Aesthetics after Representation / by Hoogland, Renee C., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Artistic activity -- Violent becomings -- Neo-aesthetics and the study of the arts of the present -- The groundless realities of art photography -- The ruse of the ruins, or: Detroit's nonreal estate -- Visualizing the face.…”
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Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

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Lessing's "Aesthetica in Nuce" : An Analysis of the May 26, 1769, Letter to Nicolai by Rudowski, Victor Anthony, 1924-

Subjects: “…Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 Aesthetics. 167192…”
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London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic / by Sen, Sambudha

Table of Contents: “…Dickens, Thackeray, and "the language of radicalism" -- The aesthetics and politics of caricature : Bleak house, Little Dorrit, and Vanity fair in relation to "radical expression" -- Re-visioning the city : the making of an urban aesthetic from Hogarth to the stereoscope -- Novelizing the city : Bleak house, Vanity fair, and the hybridizing challenge -- Radical culture, the city, and the problem of selfhood : Great expectations and Pendennis -- Working with fragments : Our mutual friend as a reflection on the popular aesthetic.…”
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Photography in the Middle: Dispatches on Media Ecologies and Aesthetics / by Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean

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Perverse Romanticism : Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832 / by Sha, Richard C.

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Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

Table of Contents: “…Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.…”
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Jacques Rancière : History, Politics, Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…contextual notes / Etienne Balibar -- Ranciere in South Carolina / Todd May -- Political agency and the ambivalence of the sensible / Yves Citton -- Staging equality : Ranciere's theatrocracy and the limits of anarchic equality / Peter Hallward -- Ranciere's leftism, or politics and its discontents / Bruno Bosteels -- Jacques Ranciere's ethical turn and the thinking of discontents / Solange Guenoun -- The politics of aesthetics : political history and the hermeneutics of art / Gabriel Rockhill -- Cinema and its discontents / Tom Conley -- Politicizing art in Ranciere and Deleuze : the case of postcolonial literature / Raji Vallury -- Impossible speech acts : Jacques Ranciere's Erich Auerbach / Andrew parker -- Style indirect libre / James swenson -- The method of equality : an answer to some questions -- Jacques Ranciere…”
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Immigrant Protest : Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent / by Tyler, Imogen, Marciniak, Katarzyna, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…: immigrant protest as cross-cultural pedagogy / Azra Akamija -- The political aesthetics of immigrant protest / Rozalinda Borcila with Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler -- Becoming British : exploring citizenship through arts practice / Lena Simic with Imogen Tyler -- Border disorder / Alex Rivera with Katarzyna Marciniak -- Loving the alien : indigenous protest and neo-colonial violence in James Cameron's Avatar / Bruce Bennett -- Pedagogy of rage / Katarzyna Marciniak -- On Israel/Palestine and the politics of visibility / Simon Faulkner -- Everyday acts of resistance : the precarious lives of asylum seekers in Glasgow / Teresa Piacentini -- Pushing the boundaries : everyday resistance in Swedish clandestinity / Maja Sager -- Subjects that matter? …”
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Parodies of Ownership : Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law / by Schur, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…The consequences of hip-hop aesthetics.…”
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Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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