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(2010) Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Alain Badiou's challenge to art education
the truth of art, the art of truth
Jan Jagodzinski
pp. 141-154
The burden of this chapter is to introduce Alain Badiou's philosophy concerning art and "inaesthetics." Badiou challenges the two linchpins that hold designer capitalism together—aesthetics and representation—and offers art and its education another way to think through the event of creativity. A leftist thinker, with Maoist roots, who studied with Louis Althusser but rejected his theories, Badiou remains a leading contemporary philosopher, slightly younger than that famous cadre of French philosophers who were politicized in the 1960s and have now passed away. His thought has deep psychoanalytic roots, drawing on Lacan's register of the unconscious Real. This is what interests me most for art and its future education when it comes to theorizing the postsymbolic Real.1
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Jagodzinski, J. (2010). Alain Badiou's challenge to art education: the truth of art, the art of truth, in Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-154.
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