The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

City and territory are currently experiencing a phase of development, or crisis, depending on whether they manage to form the know-how to respond to the current exponential evolution. Know-how that has to make a critical assessment of the fabric of structures, cultures and inherited layouts. Between...

Nul is aware of the crucial role Nicolas Bourriaud has played in contemporary art as head of institutions, exhibition commissioner and art critics for more than 25 years. Too often associated or even ‘reduced’ — sometimes up to caricature — with relational aesthetics, however, he has produced other...

This reflection looks at the literary motive of the garden, drawing on the works of Claude Simon (Les Mariques, Le Jardin des Plants) and Patrick Chamoiseau (Texaco, Biblique des Later gestes). The garden, which is particularly relevant to the world, makes it necessary to take account of the commona...

While modernity believed that it was possible to build on the elimination of mythic thinking and the advent of a entertainment society, in the empty hours of a humanity that secularised conscience and limited us to a lay daily life, academic writing appears to be a poetic, mythobiographic approach t...

<p>Naples as a centre of development and human relations must choose amongst the relational goods: friendship, cultural exchange, mobility, sports, green spaces etc. or goods which reflect “acquired positions”: the size and quality of the houses, monetary wealth, automobiles etc. to go towards a mod...

The essay discusses the motif of the butterfly and other Lepidoptera that Georges Didi-Huberman occasionally addressed in the two volumes of Essais sur l’apparition, Phasmes (1998) and Phalènes (2013). The hypothesis is that this motif can be viewed as a figural model of conceiving two essential ele...

Art Mixed and correlation with many of the philosophical and scientific concepts, particularly the mixing of aesthetic thought and philosophical meditation and literary criticism and art from history side , and this mixing and correlation and overlap , was the result of lack of separation of aesthet...

We propose to investigate the fundamental concepts of Nicolás Bourriaud’s relational Estetic in order to identify the scope and limitations of the numerous and various criticisms that have been the subject of this publication. Our intention to address these criticisms is due to the possibility to se...

Walls are material artifacts designed to attain some goals. In most cases, these are spatial goals, such as enclosure and separation. Using a Foucaultian terminology, walls can be described as governmental objects. This means they are part of the larger activity known as government of the population...

Nicolas Bourriaud proposed a discussion about the legibility of certain artistic expressions, in which the absence of a theoretical narrative enables the social practices that shape contemporary art to be decoded. Social interactive expressions present them as forms of ‘relational aesthetics’. For t...

Both texts present a systematic survey of two elementary analytical categories of Structuralist thought — binarity and opposition, especially in their semionarratological implications. In “Binarity”, one structuralist version of binary analysis is described as a decomposition “of the continuum of...

In this paper, I discuss the significance of medical visualization in relation to recent creative practices that could dismantle, or at least redress, some of its most long-lasting tenets. In fact, driven by an almost cult-like and disproportional trust in mechanization, quantities (of data), quanti...

The essay concerns the relationship between the notion of aura and the notion of digital image. The digital image is not simply image-of, not only mimesis of an, identifiable or not, thing or image, and so it does not have a simulacral essence. On the other hand, it is not even an icon or an origina...

The article addresses the performances carried out by the Caryoca performance group Herols of Cotidian, which investigates the possibility and conditions for the emergence and expansion of seismic hero in contemporaneity. By creating temporary and local microutopees, the Collective engages in public...

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jerrold Levinson’s </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Contemplating Art </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">provides the readers with a variety of heterogeneous topics and issues.</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">The discussants who took p...

this article in educational art is intended to report on the pathways created, structured, tatered and carried out by the Community School — Integration of School and Community in the Aclimation district in the city of São Paulo in 2019, through the concepts of cooperation (Freinet), free territorie...

The present article aims to meditate about the current aesthetics and relational art. To understand it in its own context, I refer myself firstly to the sculpture development in the expanded field until the current relational aesthetics theorized by critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud critic. At th...

Abstract After depicting the contemporary scene of Huni Kuin ayahuasca shamanism and artistic agency, I analyze a selection of image-songs from this ritual. The songs unveil the workings of embodied perception and synesthesia, that is, the transductions of bodily sensations and perceptions in vision...

Today of the relational sociology founded by Georg Simmel at the beginning of the 20th century requires a rereading of the fundamentals of the cogninoscitive perspective that is guided by questions from the present. That is the work that is being proposed here, and for this it is necessary to move a...

This study proposes to discuss the design as an action, the (auto-) portrait as a device of relational art from a reflection on the actions carried out within the ‘sight (no) eyes’ project. This is a proposal for exhibition/intervention/action taking place in a feminist meeting space in the city of...

The essay proposes a notion of “icon” understood, according to the paradigm born of the Second Council of Nicaea (787 AD), as a visible image of the invisible qua invisible. In this light, the distinctive feature of the icon-image is its ability to manifest the paradoxical identity-difference relati...