aesthetic regime of art

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).

Although traces of this regime are already to be found in such authors as Vico and Cervantes, it has only come to play a dominant role in the last two centuries. The aesthetic regime abolishes the hierar chical distribution ofthe sensible characteristic of the representative regime of art, including the privilege of speech over visibility as well as the hierarchy of the arts, their subject matter, and their genres. By promoting the equality of represented subjects, the indifference of style with regard to content, and the immanence of meaning in things themselves, the aesthetic regime destroys the system of genres and isolates 'art' in the singular, which it identifies with the paradoxical unity of opposites: logos and pathos. However, the singularity of art enters into an interminable contradiction due to the fact that the aesthetic regime also calls into question the very distinction between art and other activities. Strictly speaking, the egalitarian regime of the sensible can only isolate arts specificity at the expense of losing it.' (Ranciere 2000: 81) Ranciere, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York

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aesthetic regime of art