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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social
practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of
taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other
social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art
educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with
the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art,
cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in
national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into
four sections. The first section on 'Taste and art', shows how art
practice was drawn into the sphere of 'good taste', contrasting
this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to
the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art.
The next section on 'Taste making and the museum' examines the
challenges and changing social, political and organisational
dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly
universal institution and language of taste. The third section of
the book, 'Taste after Bourdieu in Japan' offers a case study of
the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local
reproduction of 'good taste', exemplified by the complex cultural
context of Japan. The final section on 'Taste, the home and
everyday life' juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of
inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the
legacy of ideas of 'good taste' have extended the possibilities of
experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the
first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with
sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and
continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste, this
publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in
understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of
taste 'after Bourdieu'. It does so at a moment when the practice of
taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of
cultural choices, and the emergence of deploying impersonal
algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making.
The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded
art education as an alternative to the established private
institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of
parliament applied Bentham's utilitarian philosophy to questions of
public taste.
Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism,
there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika.
This original and controversial contribution examines the role that
the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the
nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of
party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a
cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a boundary or
liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual anaysis to issues of
material culture and history.
The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded
art education as an alternative to the established private
institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of
parliament applied Bentham's utilitarian philosophy to questions of
public taste.
Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a boundary or liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual anaysis to issues of material culture and history.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social
practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of
taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other
social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art
educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with
the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art,
cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in
national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into
four sections. The first section on 'Taste and art', shows how art
practice was drawn into the sphere of 'good taste', contrasting
this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to
the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art.
The next section on 'Taste making and the museum' examines the
challenges and changing social, political and organisational
dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly
universal institution and language of taste. The third section of
the book, 'Taste after Bourdieu in Japan' offers a case study of
the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local
reproduction of 'good taste', exemplified by the complex cultural
context of Japan. The final section on 'Taste, the home and
everyday life' juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of
inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the
legacy of ideas of 'good taste' have extended the possibilities of
experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the
first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with
sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and
continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste, this
publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in
understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of
taste 'after Bourdieu'. It does so at a moment when the practice of
taste is being radically changed by the globa
Why is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of
ignorance' for analysts and academics? Knowing Nothing, Staying
Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and
illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in
psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework, Dany Nobus and
Malcolm Quinn question the basic assumption that knowledge is
universally good and describe how psychoanalysis is in a position
to place forms of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with
non-knowledge, blindness, ignorance and stupidity. The book draws
out the implications of a psychoanalytic theory of knowledge for
the practices of knowledge construction, acquisition and
transmission across the humanities and social sciences. The book is
divided into two sections. The first section addresses the
foundations of a psychoanalytic approach to knowledge as it emerges
from clinical practice, whilst the second section considers the
problems and issues of applied psychoanalysis, and the ambiguous
position of the analyst in the public sphere. Subjects covered
include: The Logic of Psychoanalytic Discovery Creative Knowledge
Production and Institutionalised Doctrine The Desire to Know versus
the Fall of Knowledge Epistemological Regression and the Problem of
Applied Psychoanalysis This provocative discussion of the
dialectics of knowing and not knowing will be welcomed by
practicing psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalytic studies,
but also by everyone working in the fields of social science,
philosophy and cultural studies.
Thirty years after its enactment, Congress has undertaken a review
of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act
(GNA) as well as the broader organisation and structure of the
contemporary Department of Defense (DOD) more broadly. Most
observers agree that in principle a comprehensive review of the
Goldwater-Nichols legislation is warranted at this juncture.
Further, a broad consensus appears to exist among observers that
DOD must become considerably more agile while retaining its
strength in order to enable the United States to meet a variety of
critical emerging national security challenges. Agreement seemingly
ends there. There appears to be little consensus on what should be
changed within DOD and what specific direction reform ought to
take. Discussions have begun to coalesce around a number of
proposals, including reforming defense acquisition processes,
further strengthening the Joint Staff, reducing Pentagon staffs,
and better empowering the services in the joint arena. Ideas vary,
however, on how, specifically, to achieve those outcomes.
Disagreement also exists as to whether or not reorganising DOD
alone will be sufficient. Some observers maintain that a reform of
the broader interagency system on national security matters is
needed. This book is intended to assist Congress as it evaluates
the variety of reform proposals currently under discussion around
Washington.
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