Ethics / Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions

Postmodernism and poststructuralism recognize no vantage points outside of the practice of art and politics, no transcendental signifiers to structure the experience of reality. That stance creates great problems for the old equations of the good and the beautiful, and it makes discussions of art deeply political in the sense all art embodies some particular social construction and economy of power. It also makes discussions of the political fully artistic in the sense of the imaginary transformations of the world.