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The Aesthetic regime of art (n.) is the system of genres, the hierarchy of the representative regime of art, isolates art in the singular (a paradoxical unity of logos and pathos).
The Aesthetic revolution (n.) is an early 19th century transition from the representative regime of art in the name of the aesthetic regime.
The Aesthetic unconscious (n.) is a conjunction of competing conceptions of the unconscious which1 represent meaning on the one hand as decipherable (like language) and on the other, indecipherable (like silence).
Aesthetics (n.) is not just about art, but more broadly it involves how action, production, perception, and thought determine what can take shape as 'sensible'.
A Community of equals (n.) is a presupposition that community is in constant need of verification rather than requiring a goal to be attained.
Consensus (n.) is the troubling presupposition that every part of a population and all of its problems can be incorporated into single a political order and taken into account.
Democracy (n.) is neither a form of government nor a style of social life, but an act which disturbs the political order by calling into question its very coordinates of perception, thought, and action.
The Demos (n.) is simultaneously the name of a community and the title signifying the division of a community due to a wrong.
Dissensus (n.) is a fundamental discord resulting from conflicts over the distribution of the sensible.
Emancipation (n.) is not the end of a political project nor a state of social liberation, but a process involving the always precarious and always intermittent challenge to the status quo.