Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today s globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Ranciere s theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the science of the sensible, is not a depoliticized discourse or theory of art, but instead part of a historically specific organization of social roles and communality. Rather than formulating aesthetics as the Other to politics, the contributors show that aesthetics and...

Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today s globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Ranciere s theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the science of the sensible, is not a depoliticized discourse or theory of art, but instead part of a historically specific organization of social roles and communality. Rather than formulating aesthetics as the Other to politics, the contributors show that aesthetics and...