Adbusters #117: Blueprint for a New World Part VI (Aesthetico) — Our Crisis Is A Crisis of Aesthetics
Finally, Aesthetico: the much-awaited last issue of the Blueprint for a New World series … a call for an aesthetic awakening, a re-wilding of the capitalist imagination — an adjustment to the mood, the tone, the style and thrust of our lives that has to happen if we’re going to have any kind of a future on this planet.
Specifications:
ISSN (Asia Pacific Edition): 2313-4038
ISSN (Hong Kong Edition): 2313-4046
Size: 203mm(w) x 267mm(h)
Pages: 144p + 4p cover
Our Crisis Is A Crisis of Aesthetics
Is our crisis a crisis of aesthetics? Can we design ourselves out of a terrifying future? Where is the human spirit heading?
Lucian Freud, Jackson Pollock, Hunter S. Thompson, Sayyid Qutb, Guy Debord, Dag Hammarskjold, Nietzsche, Pascal and Malevich.
- Neala Schleuning on art as action
- Niels van Poecke on postmodern narcolepsy
- Mark Cheetham’s Ecoaesthetics: Manifesto for the 21st century
- Douglas Haddow on the holy capitalist grail
- Keith Harrington on utopian economics
- Hala Habib on the Arab sense of beauty
- Fuckitall Rewild the Capitalist Imagination Design Quest
- 144-page phantasmagoria of leaves, dreams, intimations and aesthetic bliss.
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