Change Through Repetition

by Babylonia Constantinides

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...