Beautiful and disgusting politics: Taming evil and the importance of controlling the uncontrollable

Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda

doi:10.1387/ausart.20182

Beautiful and disgusting politics Taming evil and the importance of controlling the uncontrollable

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Published 2019-01-28

DOI https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.20182

Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda

Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Dpto Ciencia Política y de la Administración

Abstract

Evil doing is part of everyday social life and is extremely difficult to be counter-balanced by 'good' practices, let alone to be eliminated. Even in the realm of abstract politics, there is no simple solution or way to understand their overlapping nature. In that sense, this study explores the relationship between both sides through aesthetics and constructs a dialogical analysis transposed to politics. This relationship shows that beautiful and disgusting politics are not simply two sides of the same coin. The former has a limited potential to counterbalance the latter and, paradoxically, without its counter-part it has a limited potential to promote social transformations.

How to Cite

Yauri-Miranda, Jaseff Raziel. 2019. “Beautiful and Disgusting Politics: Taming Evil and the Importance of Controlling the Uncontrollable”. AusArt 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.20182.

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Keywords

DISGUSTING POLITICS, BEAUTIFUL POLITICS, AESTHETICS, ACCOUNTABILITY

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Dissidence and system, system and dissidence. Is criticism of the system still possible today from artistic practices?

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