Change Through Repetition

Babylonia Constantinides, Doris Rebhan, Elisa Leroy, Simon Gröger

Art and politics are related through repetition. Both realms are structured by practices of repetition and share a common room of sens(e)uality ? aesthetics in the emphatic sense of the word. It is the aesthetics and practices of repetition that reveal the relation between both realms. This volume proposes to explore aesthetic and cultural phenomena that effect change in the non-aesthetical realm, not so much in spite, but precisely because of their being ?mere? repetitions.0Repetition shapes art works through procedures and processes of reproduction, copying, depiction, or reenactment. As representation of the world, mimetic art?s relationship to the political and social world can be conceived as repetition. When can mimetic works of art nonetheless become a trigger, participant in or vehicle for political and social transformation? How do mimetic practices as diverse as those of the...