Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism :
[Book]
deconstructing the oral eye /
Jan Jagodzinski
1st ed
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010
ix, 256 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm
Education, psychoanalysis, and social transformation
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index
"The oral eye is a metaphor for the dominance of global designer capitalism. It refers to the consumerism of a designer aesthetic by the 'I' of the neoliberalist subject, as well as the aural soundscapes that accompany the hegemony of the capturing attention through screen cultures. An attempt is made to articulate the historical emergence of such a synoptic machinic regime drawing on Badiou, Bellmer, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, Rancirë, Virilio, Ziarek, and Zizek to explore contemporary art (post-Situationism) and visual cultural education. Jagodzinski develops the concept of an 'avant-garde without authority,' 'self-refleXion' and 'in(design)' to further the questions surrounding the posthuman as advanced by theorists such as Hansen, Stiegler and Ziarek's 'force' of art"--
Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism.