Introduction: The Aesthetic Turn at 15 (Legacies, Limits and Prospects)
| Author | Aida A. Hozić |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829816684253 |
| Date | 01 January 2017 |
| Published date | 01 January 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Forum: The Aesthetic Turn at 15 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816684253
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2017, Vol. 45(2) 201 –205
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1. Roland Bleiker, ‘The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory’, Millennium: Journal
of International Studies 30, no. 3 (2001): 509–33. Other contributors to the same issue
included Chrtistine Sylvester, Thaddeus Oliver, Anthony D. Smith, Michael J. Shapiro, Iver
B. Neumann, Chris Brown, Mark J. Lacy, Jutta Weldes, James der Derian, Louiza Odysseos,
Susan L. Carruthers, Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen, and Costas M. Constantinou.
2. Ibid., 510.
3. Ibid., 515.
4. Ibid., 519.
Introduction: The Aesthetic
Turn at 15 (Legacies,
Limits and Prospects)
Aida A. Hozić
University of Florida, USA
Keywords
aesthetic turn, representation, art
Roland Bleiker’s article ‘The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory’ appeared
in this journal in December 2001 as part of a special issue on ‘Images, Narratives and
Sounds’.1 The article drew a line between mimetic approaches to international relations,
which did not ‘pay enough attention to the relationship between the represented and its
representation’, and aesthetic approaches, which directly engaged ‘the gap that inevita-
bly opens up between a form of representation and the object it seeks to represent’.2
Arguing that ‘representation is always an act of power’,3 Bleiker’s key message was that
the gist of politics resided precisely within that gap. The article called for a different way
of thinking about the international, one that would ‘employ the full register of human
perception and intelligence’, and bring about ‘a shift away from the harmonious common
sense imposed by a few dominant faculties towards a model of thought that enables pro-
ductive flows across a variety of discordant faculties’.4
Corresponding author:
Aida A. Hozić, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 234 Anderson Hall, Gainesville, FL
32611, USA.
Email: hozic@ufl.edu
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