Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism : deconstructing the oral eye

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place. 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, Ranciere, Virilio, Ziarek, and i ek 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 Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture Capturing Affect Commodity of Desire Capitalist Iconoclasm Spectacular Tensions Desire of Commodity Bodily Woes The Synoptic Assemblage Designer Affect Part I: Deconstructing the Oral Eye One: Situating the Oral Eye in Designer Capitalism Two: The Fundamental Antagonism of Art & Design Three: Historical Antecedents: The Rise of the Unconscious in Artistic Practice Part II: Ruining Representation Four: On Visual Regimes and Their Shadows Five: Visual Cultural Studies and Its Discontents. Six: An Avant-Garde without Authority: Can Art (Still) Be Progressive?Part III: Art and Its Education in Designer Capitalism Seven: The Force of Art: Post-Situationism Eight: Alain Badiou's Challenge to Art Education: The Truth of Art, the Art of Truth Nine: Between Creativity and Innovation? How to Become a Traitor in Art Education Part IV: Lessons for Art Educators: Encounters with the Real Ten: Between Deleuze-Badiou: The Event Eleven: The Art Diagrammatic as In(design): Affective Encounters Part V: Reorienting Art Education for a Post-Posthuman Age. Twelve: From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its EducationNotes References 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, Rancïre, Virilio, Ziarek, and Žižek 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