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Subject: Aesthetic Activism: a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture











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October 03, 2016




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 Aesthetic Activism 
J. Irwin Miller Symposium 
 October 13–15, 2016 
 
 Yale School of Architecture 
180 York Street 
New Haven, CT 06511
USA 
 
 architecture.yale.edu 
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This symposium, convened by Mark Foster Gage, explores emerging positions that 
cast aesthetics as the primary discourse for social, ecological, and political 
engagement. In contrast to commonly held opinions that these issues are 
antithetical to the aesthetic, recent work in aesthetic theory across multiple 
disciplines suggests that such political and ontological problems may be best 
addressed as aspects of aesthetic experience. An interdisciplinary group of 
philosophers, scholars, media theorists, artists, curators, and architects will 
speculate on how a reignited discourse on aesthetics is prompting new insights 
into our relationships with not only objects, spaces, environments, and 
ecologies, but also with each other and political structures in which we are 
all enmeshed. Philosophical viewpoints foregrounding aesthetics, including 
Accelerationism, Afro-Futurism, Dark Ecology, Extro-Science Fiction, 
Disobedient Objects, Immaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, andXenofeminism, 
will be explored and discussed through a series of lectures, presentations of 
work, and interdisciplinary roundtable discussions.
Thursday, October 13
 6:30pm–7:45pm
Elaine Scarry, “Building and Breath: Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness”
Friday, October 14
 10am–7:45pm
Symposium introduction by Mark Foster Gage
"Aesthetics at Earth Magnitude: Capital, Property and Ecology"
 Jonathan Massey, Keller Easterling, Catherine Ingraham, Timothy Morton
"The Aesthetics of Equality: Object Oriented Ontology and Social Theory"
 Ferda Kolatan, Graham Harman, Ariane Lourie Harrison, David Ruy, Elaine 
Scarry, Tom Wiscombe
"The Aesthetic Today"
 Jacques Rancière in conversation with Mark Foster Gage
Saturday, October 15
 10am–7:45pm
"The Aesthetics of Activism: Afro-Futurism, Xenofeminism and Disobedient 
Objects"
 Peggy Deamer, Diann Bauer, Nettrice Gaskins, Jonathan Massey, Catherine Flood, 
Michael Speaks, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Lydia Kallipoliti, Jason Payne, Rhett 
Russo, Albena Yaneva
"The Aesthetics of the Other: Alienation, Estrangement, and Unfamiliarity"
 Michael Young, Gregory Crewdson, Caroline Picard, Pamela Rosenkrantz, Roger 
Rothman
Concluding remarks by David Ruy

 Additional schedule information is available here.
Admission is free, but reservations are required prior to October 10, 2016. You 
may register online here or by phone at T +1 (203) 432 8621.
The Yale School of Architecture is a Registered Provider with The American 
Institute of Architects Continuing Education System. Credit earned by attending 
this symposium will be reported to CES Records for AIA members. Certificates of 
Completion for non-AIA members are available upon request.
This symposium is supported by the J. Irwin Miller Endowment Fund.
 






























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