#  COMPLIT 274: Politics of Aesthetics: Worlds, Objects, Matter, Sensation 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2017 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/30143) 

 

 

 

 **Description**

 Examines and compares the relation between politics and aesthetics in major texts by: Rancière, Balibar, Nancy, Latour, Harman, Badiou, Meillassoux, Jane Bennett, Tim Morton and others. Focuses on politics of aesthetics in critical texts of the last two decades that link a politics of aesthetics to the reassessment of world(s), objects, sensation, matter while looking for a new type of realism. Deleuze, Rancière, Nancy, Cixous, Latour, Stengers, Bennett, Graham, Badiou, Meillassoux, Morton will be paired with film, fiction, painting.