about The Journal of Aesthetics
and Protest
The
Journal of Aesthetics and Protests
flies in the airs of the present, gathering up words like sticks
shaking in the breeze. The journal sits at a discursive juncture
between art and (often anarchist) activism with the knowledge
that a knowledge and discourse are one tool to change the world.
The Journal, aware of the possibilities of the boundless
moment, searches for ways to think through the cultural and
political ramifications of representation. In word and aspiration,
The Journal dreams toward a world that differs from "a
celebration of the choice already made in the sphere of production,
and the consummate result of that choice."*
The first
issue was written largely by a scattering of friends and acquaintances
whose
credentials are their interests and their will to understand
the topics on which they write.
*Guy
Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, New York 1994,
p 13.
