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Exploring the Aesthetic Body: Perception, Politics, and Poetics in Art and Culture

This text delves into the concept of the aesthetic body, examining how perceptions and sensibilities shape our understanding of embodied worlds. It discusses the role of poetics in constructing worlds, highlighting extreme cases of aesthetic representation in art, such as Orlan's carnal art and Leni Riefenstahl's film "Triumph of the Will." By analyzing the choreography of politics and the staging of the male body, this exploration reveals the intricate dynamics of relationship, power, and identity within the realm of aesthetics.

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Exploring the Aesthetic Body: Perception, Politics, and Poetics in Art and Culture

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  1. located bodies – fourthe aesthetic body

  2. aesthetics • perception and sensibilities – aesthetics refers to embodied worlds • and poetics – constructing worlds

  3. tactic – look to the limits of a case • what is the extreme case of the aesthetic body? – when the body itself is the object of a poetics

  4. Orlan • carnal art

  5. aesthetics • perception and sensibilities – aesthetics refers to embodied worlds • and poetics – constructing worlds

  6. the lists • classification and categorization • Sei Shonagon as arbiter of elegance • ordering the world • creating artificial worlds

  7. another limit case– Leni Riefenstahl and the fascist body

  8. movie - Triumph of the Will (1934)

  9. the place – Nuremberg, fields, stadia • and the people

  10. the place – Hitler’s Germany

  11. staging and choreography focusing on the male body, the body politic and the body and voice of Hitler

  12. an aesthetics of politics • the Pillow Book is precisely about the political – this is where it often resides • stagecraft/statecraft • symbolic figures • dynamics of relationship, friendship, envy

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