DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS VOL. III: LOOTING

Authors: Saidiya Hartman, Vicky Osterweil, Christina Sharpe, and Rinaldo Walcott
Edited by: Andreas Petrossiants, Jose Rosales
Publisher: Andreas Petrossiants, Jose Rosales, Emily Harvey Foundation
64 pages
12 x 19.5 cm
Softcover

Price: 82 lei

Diversity of Aesthetics is a multi-volume editorial project started with the goal of facilitating conversations between radical thinkers and cultural workers about artistic production, aesthetics, struggles against racialized capitalism, and revolutionary theory through our shared experiences.

Volume 3 is titled Looting and is a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, and Vicky Osterweil. They discuss looting as a modality of Black struggle and a form of contesting whiteness, property, politics, and modes of governance. Looting is discussed via aesthetic theory, but also in the ways it has been and is used by states to protect constituent modes of power and to cultivate Western culture. It is an engagement with centuries of Black radical thought, history, and social movements.