The Aesthetic Imperative Writings on Art

includes index and biblioraphy

1. World of Sound La musique retrouvee.........3 Remembrance of Beautiful Politics .......15 Where are we when we hear music ?.............27 2. In the light Clearing and ilumination : Notes on the Metaphysics, Mysticism and Politics of Light .......49 Illumination in the black box : on the history of Opacity ..........61 3. Design The right Tool for power :Observations on design as the modernization of Competence ...............83 On the charisma of Symbols..........97 For a Philosophy of Play ...100 4. City and Architecture The city of Its negation : An outline of Negative political Theory ......113 Architects do nothing but inside theory : Peter sloterdijk in conversation with sabine kraft and nikolaus kuhnert .......141 For a participatory architecture : Notes on the art of Daniel libeskind with reference to maurice merleau-ponty and paul valery .......174 5. Contitio humana Essay on the life of the artist : Heretics , wastrels, Falls/Cases , Inhabitants ............192 Minima museum and world`s fair ............231 6. Museum The museum : School of Disconcertment .........221 World Museum and World`s Fair ................231 7. Art System I tell you: One must still have chaos in One Art is Folding in to Itself .......249 Emissaries of violence: On the Metaphysics of Action Cinema ....................253 Good-for-Nothing returns Home or the End of an Alibi-and a Theory of the End of Art......280