Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism: Deconstructing the Oral Eye (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)

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, Rancir̈e, 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-- Situating The Oral Eye In Designer Capitalism -- The Fundamental Antagonism Of Art & Design -- Historical Antecedents : The Rise Of The Unconscious In Artistic Practice -- On Visual Regimes And Their Shadows -- Visual Cultural Studies And Its Discontents -- An Avant-garde Without Authority : Can Art (still) Be Progressive? -- The Force Of Art : Post-situationism -- Alain Badiou's Challenge To Art Education : The Truth Of Art, The Art Of Truth -- Between Creativity And Innovation? How To Become A Traitor In Art Education -- Between Deleuze/badiou : The Event -- The Art Diagrammatic And In(design) : Affective Encounters -- From Eye-world To Brain-eye : Self-reflexivity In Art And Its Education. Jan Jagodzinski. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture......Page 14 Capturing Affect......Page 15 Commodity of Desire......Page 18 Capitalist Iconoclasm......Page 20 Spectacular Tensions......Page 23 Desire of Commodity......Page 25 Bodily Woes......Page 26 The Synoptic Assemblage......Page 27 Designer Affect......Page 28 Part I: Deconstructing the Oral Eye......Page 32 Affective Capture......Page 34 Designing Difference......Page 36 Containing Monsters......Page 39 Make-Up and Over......Page 43 The Digital Dot......Page 46 Steigler's Technê......Page 50 Two: The Fundamental Antagonism of Art & Design......Page 54 Schiller/Kant Problematic......Page 55 Art Becomes Life......Page 58 Life Becomes Art......Page 62 Designer Education/New Media......Page 66 The Artistic Fragment......Page 72 Repressed Geist......Page 76 Unconscious Genealogy......Page 78 Part II: Ruining Representation......Page 84 On Visual Regimes......Page 86 Readerly Regimes......Page 88 Machinic Vision......Page 92 Virilio's Disappearances......Page 95 Kairotic Time......Page 97 Actuarial Real Time......Page 100 Virilio's Shadow......Page 103 Five: Visual Cultural Studies and Its Discontents......Page 106 Difference and Sameness......Page 107 Fantasy Formations......Page 113 Cynical Savvy Viewers......Page 117 The Force of Art as Event: Postaesthetics......Page 122 Fabulations......Page 126 Art of Xpression and E(motion)......Page 129 Avant-Garde without Authority......Page 133 Part III: Art and Its Education in Designer Capitalism......Page 138 Relational Aesthetics?......Page 140 Post-Situationist In(design)......Page 143 Disruptive Forcework......Page 145 Rhizomatic Forcework......Page 148 Forcework of Alternative Information......Page 150 Statement......Page 152 Introducing Badiou......Page 154 The Unprecedented Event......Page 157 Truth of Art......Page 159 Configurations as Truth......Page 160 Romantic Misdirection......Page 163 Art Lessons from Badiou......Page 165 Creativity|Innovation......Page 168 W(h)ither Creativity?......Page 170 Creativity Proper......Page 173 Learning to Learn......Page 176 A Traitor in Art Education......Page 178 Part IV: Lessons for Art Educators: Encounters with the Real......Page 182 Topologics......Page 184 Dice Throw......Page 190 Problematics vs. Axiomatics......Page 192 A Continued Tension......Page 194 Eleven: The Art Diagrammatic as In(design): Affective Encounters......Page 196 Kant Again......Page 197 Lacan|Deleuze on Ethics......Page 198 Two Strategies......Page 201 In(design) Circuits......Page 202 Part V: Reorienting Art Education for a Post-Posthuman Age......Page 212 Twelve: From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its Education......Page 214 Self-RefleXivity: The Disturbed Spectator......Page 217 Notes......Page 220 References......Page 236 Index......Page 258 "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, Rancir̈e, 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"-- Provided by publisher 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.