Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism: Deconstructing the Oral Eye (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)

Cover......Page 1
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture......Page 14
Capturing Affect......Page 15
Commodity of Desire......Page 18
Capitalist Iconoclasm......Page 20
Spectacular Tensions......Page 23
Desire of Commodity......Page 25
Bodily Woes......Page 26
The Synoptic Assemblage......Page 27
Designer Affect......Page 28
Part I: Deconstructing the Oral Eye......Page 32
Affective Capture......Page 34
Designing Difference......Page 36
Containing Monsters......Page 39
Make-Up and Over......Page 43
The Digital Dot......Page 46
Steigler\'s Technê......Page 50
Two: The Fundamental Antagonism of Art & Design......Page 54
Schiller/Kant Problematic......Page 55
Art Becomes Life......Page 58
Life Becomes Art......Page 62
Designer Education/New Media......Page 66
The Artistic Fragment......Page 72
Repressed Geist......Page 76
Unconscious Genealogy......Page 78
Part II: Ruining Representation......Page 84
On Visual Regimes......Page 86
Readerly Regimes......Page 88
Machinic Vision......Page 92
Virilio\'s Disappearances......Page 95
Kairotic Time......Page 97
Actuarial Real Time......Page 100
Virilio\'s Shadow......Page 103
Five: Visual Cultural Studies and Its Discontents......Page 106
Difference and Sameness......Page 107
Fantasy Formations......Page 113
Cynical Savvy Viewers......Page 117
The Force of Art as Event: Postaesthetics......Page 122
Fabulations......Page 126
Art of Xpression and E(motion)......Page 129
Avant-Garde without Authority......Page 133
Part III: Art and Its Education in Designer Capitalism......Page 138
Relational Aesthetics?......Page 140
Post-Situationist In(design)......Page 143
Disruptive Forcework......Page 145
Rhizomatic Forcework......Page 148
Forcework of Alternative Information......Page 150
Statement......Page 152
Introducing Badiou......Page 154
The Unprecedented Event......Page 157
Truth of Art......Page 159
Configurations as Truth......Page 160
Romantic Misdirection......Page 163
Art Lessons from Badiou......Page 165
Creativity|Innovation......Page 168
W(h)ither Creativity?......Page 170
Creativity Proper......Page 173
Learning to Learn......Page 176
A Traitor in Art Education......Page 178
Part IV: Lessons for Art Educators: Encounters with the Real......Page 182
Topologics......Page 184
Dice Throw......Page 190
Problematics vs. Axiomatics......Page 192
A Continued Tension......Page 194
Eleven: The Art Diagrammatic as In(design): Affective Encounters......Page 196
Kant Again......Page 197
Lacan|Deleuze on Ethics......Page 198
Two Strategies......Page 201
In(design) Circuits......Page 202
Part V: Reorienting Art Education for a Post-Posthuman Age......Page 212
Twelve: From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its Education......Page 214
Self-RefleXivity: The Disturbed Spectator......Page 217
Notes......Page 220
References......Page 236
Index......Page 258