Aesthetics of Affliction

Alberto Guevara; Elysée Nouvet

doi:10.25071/1913-5874/37315

Authors

Alberto Guevara York University
Elysée Nouvet York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-5874/37315

Abstract

In making Aesthetics of Affliction our theme for this first issue, our goal was to engage immediately with questions that must remain central in a journal dealing with corpo-realities of structural violence, the senses, and the theatricality of power. These questions are: how can we talk to experiences and situations that evade translation and that are mired with legacies of objectification? What are the possibilities, limits, hopes, and risks when addressing non-linear moves of power, the work of violence, and social yet also intensely subjective effects/affects?

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