Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough
Biographic Data
| ID | 2440921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandr Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Wansbrough |
| SIGNATURE | WANSBROUGH A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | AURO University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0503-9751 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Democracy, Freedom and Laughter
In his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel reasons that comedy responds to the fact that democratic ideals become a subject for a joke when enacted: progressive values such as free speech enable regressive quarrels and political liberties that ought to empower individuals can engender indolence and self-seeking profit. In such a situation, comedy performs a complicated function, accentuating the shortcomings of democratic society, while maintaining dem…
Losing what you do not have
This article attempts to explore the theme of subverted innocence in Adam Geczy’s recent installation work S/M Wonderland. Geczy’s work suggests that loss of innocence is fiction. As with Nietzsche, however, once one discards the notion of sin and guilt, one returns to a type of innocence, but an innocence radically different from the pure, virginal innocence before the fall. Geczy’s installation explores this theme with reference to fashion, que…
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Losing what you do not have
This article attempts to explore the theme of subverted innocence in Adam Geczy’s recent installation work S/M Wonderland. Geczy’s work suggests that loss of innocence is fiction. As with Nietzsche, however, once one discards the notion of sin and guilt, one returns to a type of innocence, but an innocence radically different from the pure, virginal innocence before the fall. Geczy’s installation explores this theme with reference to fashion, que…
Democracy, Freedom and Laughter
In his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel reasons that comedy responds to the fact that democratic ideals become a subject for a joke when enacted: progressive values such as free speech enable regressive quarrels and political liberties that ought to empower individuals can engender indolence and self-seeking profit. In such a situation, comedy performs a complicated function, accentuating the shortcomings of democratic society, while maintaining dem…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Capitalism (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work)