Diversity of Aesthetics

by Andreas Petrossiants (Editor)

Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.


Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our policing, war, borders and migration, economic crisis.


Across three themes—infrastructure, migration, and riots—militant thinkers, artists, educators, and others discuss aesthetic production, forms of social organization, modes of struggle against gendered and racialized capitalism, and revolutionary theory. Common to all three conversations is a commitment to rethinking the relationship between forms of critique and forms of struggle undertaken by collective social practices, offering lessons for tactics, strategies, and practices.

Genres: Art, Philosophy

176 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2025

Reviews

[Avery Marley]

Diversity of Aesthetics is a vital and timely collection that examines the intersections of art, social movements, and political struggle. Across themes of infrastructure, migration, and riots, leading thinkers and artists, including Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Claire Fontaine, explore how aesthetic production can engage with policing, borders, economic crises, and racialized capitalism. The conversations illuminate strategies for collective action, radical critique, and revolutionary practice, making this book essential for readers interested in art, social theory, and the politics of creative resistance.

[Liva Diler · Rating 3 out of 5]

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