Norwegian arts festival, TOpublic, aims to test the production, programming and transmission of contemporary art to a young audience in non-traditional ways; showing engaging art that raises ethical, artistic and social borderlines.

They invited PRAKSIS Director, Nicholas John Jones, to select a reading list of approximately 10 books, articles or links relevant to the theme of Politics in Aesthetics. You can read the list on TOpublic's website here.

Nicholas' choices

Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter, 1942, Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture; 3rd edition (March 15, 1999)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows, 1933, Leete's Island Books; First Edition edition (December 1, 1977)
Guy Debourd, Society of the Spectacle, 1967, Black & Red (June 1, 2000)
Marcia Mueller Eaton, Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical, 2001, Oxford University Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2001)
Dave Hickey, Air Guitar, 1997, Art Issues Press; 1st edition (August 2, 1997)
Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, 1998, Les Presse Du Reel,Franc; Les Presses Du Reel edition (January 1, 1998)
Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, 2012, Verso; Original edition (July 24, 2012)
Anne Eaton, "Robust Immoralism", 2012, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Summer 2012, Volume 70, Issue 3
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman, 2009, Penguin; edition (2009-02-05)
Omar Kholeif (Editor), You are Here: Art After the Internet, 2013, Cornerhouse Publications (December 12, 2013)
Edward A. Shanken (Editor), Systems, 2015, The MIT Press (March 13, 2015)
Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, Sternberg Press; edition (2012-09-01)