In Another Aesthetics is Possible, Jennifer Ponce de León looks at recent aesthetic practices in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States that shift the commonsense of history, space, and violence in order to usher in an anticapitalist and anticolonial world. With an expansive archive and a method that combines interviews, journalism, and close formal readings of art–activist practices, Ponce de León demonstrates the importance of aesthetics—and of aesthetic criticism—for making another world possible.
Articles by Michael Dango
Michael Dango is Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College. He is the author of Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair (Stanford UP, 2021), which theorizes how stylistic developments in contemporary fiction, sculpture, film, and design respond to a sense of pervasive crisis. He is at work on a second book manuscript, What Does Rape Look Like? Sexual Violence and Aesthetic Education, which argues an aesthetic discourse better understands sexual violence than the legal and public health discourses that have dominated its discussion most recently. Other writings have appeared or are forthcoming in differences, New Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Post45, Social Text, Novel, and Signs, as well as para-academic forums such as Public Books, The New Inquiry, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum.