{"product_id":"diversity-of-aesthetics-vol-iii","title":"Diversity of Aesthetics, vol. III: Looting","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiversity of Aesthetics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a multi-volume editorial project started with the goal of facilitating conversations between radical thinkers and cultural workers about artistic production, aesthetics, struggles against racialized capitalism, and revolutionary theory through our shared experiences. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first volume, titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInside and Outside: Infrastructures of Critique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e features Michael Rakowitz, Shellyne Rodriguez, and Stevphen Shukaitis in conversation with Andreas Petrossiants mapping connections between social movements and artistic work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second volume, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForeigners Everywhere,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents a lesser-known account of Claire Fontaine’s reception outside of the university and the museum in the Global South and features a conversation between Claire Fontaine, Iman Ganji, and Jose Rosales ranging from the 2021 strikes in Iran to the internationalist potential of the practice of translation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLastly, volume 3 is titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLooting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and is a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, and Vicky Osterweil. They discuss looting as a modality of Black struggle and a form of contesting whiteness, property, politics, and modes of governance. Looting is discussed via aesthetic theory, but also in the ways it has been and is used by states to protect constituent modes of power and to cultivate Western culture. It is an engagement with centuries of Black radical thought, history, and social movements. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accordion-item__dropdown accordion-item__dropdown--open\" role=\"region\" id=\"dropdown-block-yui_3_17_2_1_1765504472851_124163-0\" aria-labelledby=\"button-block-yui_3_17_2_1_1765504472851_124163-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accordion-item__description\" style=\"min-width: 100%; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\" data-sqsp-accordion-block-item-description=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Looting is direct action par excellence. But it is also a nearly irrecuperable aesthetic gesture against the police, whiteness, and the regime of property that gives those forces power and purpose. In revealing the innately ideological and social content of property ownership, in demonstrating that all that stands between us and plenty is a thin sheet of plate glass, looting destabilizes the ideological hold of whiteness, property, and capital, and it has done so since the enslaved looted themselves singly and en masse from the plantation.”  \u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eVicky Osterweil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44505499140189,"sku":"CN-DA3","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/diversityofaestheticsvoliiilooting.png?v=1781205635","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/diversity-of-aesthetics-vol-iii","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}