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Да поиграем на хетеротопии.
Let’s Play at Heterotopias.

A Commentary on Jacques Ranciere’s Conception of Aesthetic Heterotopia

Author(s): Silvia Borisova
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Social Philosophy, Sociology, History of ideas
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: aesthetic; aesthetic heterotopia; Rancière; aesthetics; ethics; revaluation of all values;

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present Rancière’s conception of aesthetic heterotopia as a „place of the indeterminate“ in its aesthetical basis, as well as in its relation to the ethical and the political orders; in this context, the author discusses 1) the phenomena of horizontality and plurality in which heterotopias and utopias can be distinguished; 2) the contemporary „revaluation of all values“ (Nietzsche) preceding that horizontality and plurality in acommon typology of the axiological need of heterotopias. This discussion ultimately aims to answer the final question: Does the creation and play with (aesthetic) heterotopias make the world a game?

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 45-52
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English, Bulgarian