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Strandberg, G., West, K. & Wikström, J. (Eds.). (2024). Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (1ed.). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller
2024 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Med Kallias, eller om skönheten, en serie brev skrivna 1792–93, introducerade Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) en ny idé om konstens autonomi i den västerländska filosofin. Konstverket, argumenterade han där, är ett föremål som har den särskilda förmågan att framträda som självbestämmande. Att konsten är autonom betyder därför inte att den är objektivt fri, att den är oberoende av materiella eller historiska bestämningar. Det betyder att den i kraft av sin form kan ge sken av att vara fri. ”Skönhet”, skrev Schiller, ”är alltså inget annat än frihet i framträdelse”. 

Texterna i den här antologin har sitt ursprung i konferensen Kallias, eller om skönheten: om estetik och politik hos Friedrich Schiller, som ägde rum på Södertörns högskola våren 2023. Konferensen arrangerades med anledning av att Schillers text för första gången publicerades på svenska, i översättning av Gustav Strandberg (Kallias, eller om skönheten, 1|21 Press, 2023). Deltagarna var forskare i filosofi och estetik vid Södertörns högskola och andra svenska och nordiska lärosäten. I denna antologi undersöker de hur Schillers tankar om konstens autonomi först tog form, hur de mottogs i Schillers samtid, hur de har levt vidare i den efterföljande kritiska filosofin, samt hur de ska förstås i dag.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2024. p. 234 Edition: 1
Series
Södertörn Academic Studies, ISSN 1650-433X ; 96Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics ; 10
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-54847 (URN)978-91-89504-59-2 (ISBN)978-91-89504-60-8 (ISBN)
Note

I den tryckta boken felaktigt Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics 9

Available from: 2024-10-15 Created: 2024-10-15 Last updated: 2025-07-02Bibliographically approved
Strandberg, G., West, K. & Wikström, J. (2024). Inledning. In: Gustav Strandberg; Kim West; Josefine Wikström (Ed.), Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (pp. 7-24). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Inledning
2024 (Swedish)In: Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller / [ed] Gustav Strandberg; Kim West; Josefine Wikström, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2024, p. 7-24Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2024
Series
Södertörn Academic Studies, ISSN 1650-433X ; 96Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics ; 10
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55134 (URN)978-91-89504-60-8 (ISBN)978-91-89504-59-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-10-30 Created: 2024-10-30 Last updated: 2024-10-31Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2024). Konstens autonomi är vanlig. In: Gustav Strandberg; Kim West; Josefine Wikström (Ed.), Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (pp. 197-225). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Konstens autonomi är vanlig
2024 (Swedish)In: Autonomins sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller / [ed] Gustav Strandberg; Kim West; Josefine Wikström, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2024, p. 197-225Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2024
Series
Södertörn Academic Studies, ISSN 1650-433X ; 96Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics ; 10
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55144 (URN)978-91-89504-60-8 (ISBN)978-91-89504-59-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-10-30 Created: 2024-10-30 Last updated: 2024-10-30Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2024). The autonomy of art is ordinary: notes in defense of an idea of emancipation. London: Sternberg Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The autonomy of art is ordinary: notes in defense of an idea of emancipation
2024 (English)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Sternberg Press, 2024. p. 64
Series
The contemporary condition ; 18
National Category
Aesthetics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-56485 (URN)9781915609618 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-02-20 Created: 2025-02-20 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2023). A Free Art Calls for a Free Society: On the Freedom of Art and Autonomy as Project. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 32(66), 8-48
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A Free Art Calls for a Free Society: On the Freedom of Art and Autonomy as Project
2023 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, ISSN 2000-1452, E-ISSN 2000-9607, Vol. 32, no 66, p. 8-48Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In recent years, the far right “culture war” has to an increasing extent been allowed to set the terms for cultural policy debates, in Sweden and internationally. In the Swedish context, empty accusations against public cultural institutions of “wokeist” bias and “cancel culture” have found support in a public report from the governmental Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis, which claims that national public funding bodies are imposing politically correct demands on their applicants, with a “detrimental influence” on the freedom of art. This article shows that the ACPA lacks grounds for these claims. Taking its cue from the ACPA’s report, it instead focuses on the fundamental and contested concept of the freedom or the autonomy of art. It seeks to outline what would need to characterise a critical concept of the autonomy of art today, and asks what the political implications would be of a rigorous understanding of such a concept. It argues that cultural policy should be understood as a project of cultural democratization, which should in turn be understood as a project of autonomy.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Nordic Society for Aesthetics, 2023
Keywords
Freedom of Art, Autonomy of Art, Cultural Policy, Cultural Critique, Radical Democracy, Social Aesthetics, Cultural Democratisation, Project of Autonomy, Myndigheten för kulturanalys [Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis]
National Category
Arts Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52230 (URN)10.7146/nja.v32i65-66.140118 (DOI)
Note

Double issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 32 No. 65-66 (2023), with separate pagination.

Available from: 2023-08-29 Created: 2023-08-29 Last updated: 2023-08-29Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2023). The Undivided People: On the Hypothesis of Radical Democracy in Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance. In: David Payne; Alexander Stagnell; Gustav Strandberg (Ed.), Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (pp. 176-193). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Undivided People: On the Hypothesis of Radical Democracy in Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance
2023 (English)In: Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics / [ed] David Payne; Alexander Stagnell; Gustav Strandberg, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, p. 176-193Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51075 (URN)2-s2.0-85203483809 (Scopus ID)9781350183629 (ISBN)9781350183636 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-02-22 Created: 2023-02-22 Last updated: 2024-10-03Bibliographically approved
Strandberg, G., West, K. & Wikström, J. (2022). Kritik av konstens frihet: en motrapport. Hägarsten: 1|21 Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kritik av konstens frihet: en motrapport
2022 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Den här boken tar sin utgångspunkt i Myndigheten för kultur- analys rapport Så fri är konsten, som publicerades i juni 2021. Boken är utformad som en motrapport och ställer ett antal speci- fika frågor: hur bör vi förstå begreppet ”konstens frihet” under samtida förutsättningar? Vilka är relationerna mellan det be- greppet och de ”kreativa näringarnas” fält och principen om ”armlängds avstånd”? Och vilka skulle de politiska implikatio- nerna vara av en sträng förståelse av ”konstens frihet”? Men bok- en vill samtidigt, på en mer generell nivå, bidra till att öppna en principiell diskussion om vad en långsiktig, progressiv och anti- rasistisk kulturpolitik skulle kunna vara i Sverige idag, mot bak- grund av ett politiskt läge som kännetecknas av konservativa, xenofobiska och antiintellektuella krafters allt starkare inflytande. Författarna är forskare i Estetik och Filosofi vid Södertörns Högskola, där de driver forskningsprojektet Autonomi, kultur, handling: om kulturens politiska handlingssfärer i den nyliberala väl- färdsstaten, finansierat av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2021–24.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hägarsten: 1|21 Press, 2022. p. 126
National Category
Arts Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50604 (URN)9789198690828 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P20-0333
Note

En konst för konstens skull eller en kritisk förståelse av konstens autonomi? / Josefine Wikström s. 75-98

Available from: 2023-01-11 Created: 2023-01-11 Last updated: 2025-06-23Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2017). The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963–1977. (Doctoral dissertation). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963–1977
2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This dissertation traces the history of a diagram. The diagram shows four circles of gradually diminishing sizes, lodged one inside the other, like the layers of a circular or spherical body. For a group of artists, curators, architects, and activists centered around Moderna Museet in Stockholm between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, the diagram represented a new type of museum: a museological Information Center modeled on the computer, operating as a site for radically democratic social experiments. The four layers stood for different functions: information capture, processing, interface, storage; or, put differently: social spaces and media resources, workshop floors, exhibition facilities, collection.

Through close readings of a series of exhibitions and institutional projects in Sweden, the US, and France, this dissertation follows the development of this diagram: its prehistory and formulation, its different implementations, and its direct and indirect effects. It studies Moderna Museet’s original, unrealized project for Kulturhuset in Stockholm, according to which the museum should project its dynamic energies across the city center, serving as a “catalyst for the active forces in society”. It discusses the museum’s confrontation with digital technologies in the late 1960s, through pioneering museological organizations such as the Museum Computer Network in New York. It analyzes the exhibition formats developed in correspondence with the notion of the museum as a “vast experimental laboratory” and a “broadcasting station”: the exhibition as critical information pattern, as tele-commune. And it studies the diagram’s afterlife as one of the models informing the Centre Pompidou in Paris, during that project’s early phases.

The Exhibitionary Complex reads these endeavors and visions as attempts to devise a critical understanding of the exhibitionary apparatus in relation to new information environments and media systems. It sheds light on a largely forgotten aspect of the exhibitionary, museological, and cultural history of the late twentieth century, in Sweden and internationally. But it also seeks to establish new models for grasping the exhibition’s singularity and potentials as a cultural and media technological form, in relation to the emergence of new information networks, as they exert increasing control over social, cultural, and political existence.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2017. p. 359
Series
Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, ISSN 1652-7399 ; 130Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics ; 4
Keywords
Modern and contemporary art exhibitions, modern and contemporary art museums, apparatus, dispositif, exhibitionary complex, exhibition history, museology, media archaeology, aesthetics, Moderna Museet, Kulturhuset, Centre Pompidou, Museum Computer Network, Filialen
National Category
Arts
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory; Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32143 (URN)1559/42/2011 (Local ID)978-91-87843-76-1 (ISBN)978-91-87843-77-8 (ISBN)1559/42/2011 (Archive number)1559/42/2011 (OAI)
Public defence
2017-03-24, MB503, Alfred Nobels allé 7, Huddinge, 13:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A010-2011
Available from: 2017-03-03 Created: 2017-02-21 Last updated: 2022-07-01Bibliographically approved
West, K. (2016). Loyal Subjects of the Image: 'Pictures of Sweden 1969'. Afterall (41), 68-79
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Loyal Subjects of the Image: 'Pictures of Sweden 1969'
2016 (English)In: Afterall, ISSN 1465-4253, no 41, p. 68-79Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Excavating the polemical Pictures of Sweden 1969', Kim West discusses the exhibition form as a critical means of communication.

National Category
Philosophy Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30619 (URN)10.1086/687089 (DOI)000374493100009 ()2-s2.0-84964004963 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-07-19 Created: 2016-07-18 Last updated: 2018-07-05Bibliographically approved
Projects
Space, Power, and Ideology [A010-2011_OSS]; Södertörn University; Publications
Lindstrand, T. & Nilsson, H. (2017). Solid Flows. Architecture and Culture, 5(2), 297-314West, K. (2017). The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963–1977. (Doctoral dissertation). Huddinge: Södertörns högskolaNilsson, H. & Lindstrand, T. (2016). Sous les Pavés, les Pavés. Hjärnstrom (123-124), 44-50Lindstrand, T. & Nilsson, H. (2015). I mitt hus där jag bor. Hjärnstorm (122), 2-10Lindstrand, T. & Nilsson, H. (2014). Staging Subversive Opportunism in the Age of Feedback Loop. Paper presented at Subversive Opportunism, Architektüros Fondas, Tallin 2014. ALF : Architektüros Fondas (04)
Autonomy, Culture, Action: On Culture's Spheres of Political Action in the Neoliberal Welfare State [P20-0333_RJ]; Södertörn University; Publications
Wikström, J. (2024). Can Contemporary Aesthetics be Critical?: A Short Commentary on this Question via Horkheimer’s Critique of Science and Reason. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 33(67), 64-74West, K. (2023). A Free Art Calls for a Free Society: On the Freedom of Art and Autonomy as Project. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 32(66), 8-48Wikström, J. (2023). An Art for Art's Sake or a Critical Concept of Art's Autonomy?: Autonomy, Arm's Lenght Distance and Art's Freedom. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 32(66), 74-99Wikström, J. (2023). Art's Social Forms: Louis Menand,The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2021) [Review]. Radical philosophy, 2(14), 96-98Wikström, J. (2023). Form in Art and in Value. SITE Zones (December 7)Strandberg, G. (2023). The Paradigm of the Creative Industries: Cultural Policy in the Neoliberal Welfare State. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 32(66), 50-73Björk, J. & Wikström, J. (2023). Upploppet som det absoluta konstverket. K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, 52(134-135), 239-262Strandberg, G., West, K. & Wikström, J. (2022). Kritik av konstens frihet: en motrapport. Hägarsten: 1|21 Press
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