![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, one might point to how Plato’s expulsion of “colourful” and supposedly deceitful poets from his republic is at the heart of the long history of theory-and-practice-oriented inquiries that concern the conflicted nature of the unfolding relationship between aesthetics and the political. How do we invite an audience into a conversation when this conversation actually began months prior? Maybe we should continue from common ground, or what do you think, Maj? I suggest that we begin by opening our conversation anew and by revisiting some of the shared knowledge and genealogy we have established in our discussions face to face to better allow for outside readers to enter into the conversation. Keywords: Aesthetics, politics migration literature, borders, power relations, poetry, cinema. Through text we share analytical challenges and insights from our work with aesthetic practices that are constituted in the space between the aesthetic and the political. ![]() This article ultimately seeks to perform a small-scale version of a possibly radical and academic friendship between the two authors. Through a dialogical analysis of two different works of art ––the poem “Home” (2015) by Somali-Kenyan-British writer Warsan Shire and the film Out on the Street (2015) by the Cairo-based artists Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk––the investigation is further preoccupied with how to translate this conceptual approach into a concrete analysis of how literature and other aesthetic practices instigate processes of radical transformation. The desired aim of this creative investigation is to approach the relational space between aesthetics and politics as a radical friendship: a relation characterized by difference and connection and by its potential to radically change both entities involved. As philosopher and art historian Juliane Rebentisch notes, the very fact that politics can be––and continuously is–– aestheticized also suggests that an inherent connection exists between the two. Connections of Difference: A Dialogue on the Complex Relations and the Transformative Spaces In-between Aesthetics and the Political AbstractĪ great number of scholarly and literary works that focus on the apparently problematic relation between aesthetics and the political are concerned with the idea that an inherent difference exists between these two spheres. ![]()
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