http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/30/extimasies-art-politics-society-in-times-of-crisis/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/30/extimasies-art-politics-society-in-times-of-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-10367 Marc Herbst Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:17:19 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/30/extimasies-art-politics-society-in-times-of-crisis/#comment-10367 I am recently taken by the idea of agonism, the political ideal of a political system bent on allowing for dissonance. (mouffe and laclau)
I like this ideal because in my understanding it seems partially based on the notion that culture thrives in the flowerings of dissonance and that it is not the state’s roll to understand and diminish dissonance but more so to mediate it. Thus conferences that boldly state and embrace uncertainty definitely seem to be embodying and fostering a most productive site for accademia, inspiring questioning.

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/30/extimasies-art-politics-society-in-times-of-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-10310 Daniel Quiles Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:38:23 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/30/extimasies-art-politics-society-in-times-of-crisis/#comment-10310 I like that you leave the future very much “uncertain”; a good way to account for the future! But why do you think the institution’s “light” political attitude was “important?”

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