Neo-Aesthetic Theory: Complexity and Complicity Must Be Defended

A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art.Misko Suvakovic describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "permanent state of emergency". The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music and new media with contemporary theory, philosophyand aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.