Collections and Archives as Creative Practice

  Dilettante Ventures
  LeisureArts
  placekraft
  Studiolo54

  Collections
  Lifetime Achievements (ongoing)
  Nothing
  Future Shock
  Sunset/Sunrise
  I Love You This Much
  Mary Kay
  469689.5 - A New Bermuda Triangle
  Focus
  The Joy of Jell-o
  Charlie's Angels Pose
  Non-Places
  Answering Machine Tapes
  Searching for Jesus on MySpace
  Amazon Wishlists
  Florida Plates

  Misc.
  is the new
  State Fairs and Festivals
  Factory Tours
  Dead Bury the Dead
  Hard Ankle 10-20
  Anomaphenomenological Gravitology
  Work in Progress

This library is a sample of the sorts of texts that inform the research agenda and practice of The Department of Aesthetics. These articles are intended for research purposes only. Any author or publisher that feels posting these PDF files is a violation of their copyright should contact The Department of Aesthetics to request their removal. [Articles added in the future will be placed at the top of the list]

  Tactical Irrelevance: Art and Politics at Play
  Reclaiming Dewey’s Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Urban Environmental Reconstruction
  QUESTIONING THE RHETORICAL ECLIPSE OF PHILOSOPHICAL LEISURE: AD COLLOQUIUM CONFERENDUM
  Leisure, Social Capital, and Democratic Citizenship
  Leisure and Democracy: Incompatible Ideals?
  Gender and the Everyday Aesthetics of Food
  Aesthetic Interaction — A Pragmatist’s Aesthetics of Interactive Systems
  Aesthetics in Practice: Valuing the Natural World
  Thought News: A Quest for Democratic Communication Technology
  Visual Culture Jam: Art, Pedagogy, and Creative Resistance
  Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?
  On the Promise of a Sociological Aesthetics: From Georg Simmel to Michel Maffesoli
  EMERSON AND THE EDUCATION OF NATURE
  Art for Everybody
  Aesthetic Education as Reconstructionist Education
  Collecting as an Art
  Notions of Art-of-Living
  The Simple Life
  The Aesthetics of Everyday Life: BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT
  Pragmatism
  Dewey’s Art as Experience
  Downtime at the Experimental Station
  Pragmatism’s Alternative to Foundationalism and Relativism
  The Pro-Am Revolution: How enthusiasts are changing our economy and society
  Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body Art
  In the Space of Art
  WENDELL BERRY’S CONCEPTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- AND HIS COMMUNITARIAN, ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW
  An Introduction to Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance
  Critical Theory and the Pragmatist Challenge
  Introduction: Habermas, Pragmatism, Interactionism
  USING THE “R” WORD AGAIN: PRAGMATISM AS QUALIFIED RELATIVISM
  Generic [modern] Architecture Field, Actor-Networks and Pragmatism
  THE SADNESS OF POST-WORKERISM or “ART AND IMMATERIAL LABOUR” CONFERENCE A SORT OF REVIEW
  Living and Loving 1 & 2: Aleksandra Mir and Subverted Biography
  The Modern Life Course and the Ethics of the Art of Living
  (More or Less) Democratic Forms Relational Aesthetics and the Rhetoric of Globalization
  Empathy and Contemporary Art
  Empathy and the Art of Living
  The aestheticisation of food: taste, time and typicality
  THE AMATEUR PROFESSIONAL AND THE PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR
  Harrell Fletcher interviewed by Allan McCollum
  EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY AND THE ART OF LIVING
  Interviewing Richard Shusterman
  GATORS IN THE BAYOU: What Have we Lost in Disenchantment?
  A Pragmatist Approach to Inquiry: Recuperation of the Poetic
  Creativeness as an Educative Ideal in Dewey's Philosophy
  Arts-Of-Living

  the Think Tank that has yet to be named
  Public Collectors
  Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday
  Katie Hargrave
  Untitled Projects

  Slow Food USA
  CulinaryCorps
  Local Harvest

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PDF of CV coming soon.