Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism

Introduction: Aestheticization of the Wor(l)d Picture; B.Steigler PART I: DECONSTRUCTING THE ORAL EYE Situating the Oral-Eye in Designer Capitalism On Visual Regimes and their Shadows PART II: RUINING REPRESENTATIONS Historical Antecedents: The Rise of the Unconscious in Artistic Practice Deleuze's 'logic of sense': The Importance of Affect for Art and its Education Badiou? 15 Lessons PART III: ART AND ITS EDUCATION IN DESIGNER CAPITALISM Between Art& Design Education: The Fundamental Antagonism The Primal Fantasy of Visual Art Education: It Just Keeps Going and Going and Going... Fantasies of Radicalism: Art Education's Conservative Appropriation of Postmodernism Badiou's Challenge to Education: The 'Truth" of Art, the Art of Truth Creativity? PART IV: LESSONS FOR ART EDUCATORS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE REAL The Impossible Real (Nachtwey) W(h)ither Pain? Avant Garde without Authority Virillo Meets Bill Viola: How to Overload the Circuits of Thought Krysztof Wodiczko: Counting the Uncounted Alfredo Jaar: The Limitations of the 'Real' Mondofesto PART V: REORIENTING ART EDUCATION FOR A POSTHUMAN AGE: SELF-REXFLEXIVITY OF INDESIGN From Eye-World to Brain-Eye: Self-RefleXivity in Art and Its Education PART IV: THINKING DIAGRAMATICALLY Orlan/Stelac/ Bilal Decentering the Visual Organ of Designer Capitalism: Probe-heads and Beyond