Burke Meets the Punks: Political Aesthetics of the State and Revolutionary Aesthetic Retorts

• In Event: Critical Approaches to Emerging Technologies, Aesthetics, and Simulacra

Brief Overview

Drawing on novel field work, a case study of punks and skinheads shows how the affective force of aesthetics plays a key role in political ideology formation. I theorize two primary functions of aesthetics in political life: identifying and shaping.

Author

• Kyra Chantel-Kay Rossier, University of Colorado Boulder