Professor Thomas Docherty, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick - Just Taste

Introduction to the Conference Proceedings: Professor Malcolm Quinn, Associate Dean of Research and Director of CCW Graduate School.

‘Just taste’ starts from the ostensibly counter-intuitive proposition that political conditions are determined by aesthetics. Although this is indeed a large claim, it is one entirely prefigured by Bourdieu and is the logical consequence of his work in Distinction. There are serious consequences in this for how we consider issues of taste – no longer ‘just taste’ in the sense of being ‘merely’ taste; but ‘just taste’ in the socio-legal sense, in which aesthetics is related to justice. The case depends on how judgement figures centrally both in aesthetic taste and in political justice. I’ll explore conditions governing aesthetic judgement in terms of the four themes of the conference as a whole: gallery, museum, street, and home; and will do this under the terms of Grayson Perry’s first Reith Lecture, on how ‘Democracy has bad taste’. The core of the presentation will place aesthetic education in the context of ‘the just’.

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Taste After Bourdieu 
15-16 May 2014
 Chelsea College of Arts

The conference Taste After Bourdieu brings together UK and international speakers from arts practice, art education, curation, sociology and cultural criticism to ask - what is the current relationship between aesthetic judgement and social distinction?

In response to the influential twentieth century analysis of taste proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, how should we construct a cross-cultural analysis of taste in the twenty first century?

Taste After Bourdieu offers an analysis of taste across four key domains - the Museum, the Gallery, the Street and the Home - to re-evaluate the relationship of aesthetic judgement to social distinction for a new era. Working within and across these four domains enables us to embrace the Bourdieusian idea of a cross-cultural analysis of taste while questioning the reduction of aesthetics to social distinction that has accompanied it.

On the one hand, the reduction of aesthetic value to social distinction has proposed an end to the separation of high and low culture and anxiety about status and respectability. On the other hand, this same reduction of aesthetic value to social distinction is supported by new kinds of personal and cultural anxiety, new forms of cultural institution and new expressions of social and political power.

The Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate School is the home of our taught MA courses, our research degree students, professors, readers and fellows. The distinctiveness of the Graduate School is founded on its commitment to intensifying the relationship between research-focused activity in the four Graduate School themes - Environment, Technologies, Social Engagement and Identities - and the taught courses. This connection is vital to ensuring that students both understand and are able to utilise the power and potential of research to transform their individual practice as artists and designers.

Taste After Bourdieu | Professor Thomas Docherty: Just Taste

LECCIONES DE PERREO 120 BPM as featured in EL RUDO DEL HOUSE (ROUND FOUR) out now!

The final chapter of this 4 part adventure of music and motion.

Calling on his collective and collected spirit, El Rudo del House strikes again with this fourth release of this series. Since the start of this journey the goal to bring the awareness of body mechanics to the masses through the sounds, sights, and movements of El Rudo Del House has brought him on adventures while touring this message- from the clubs and bush of South Africa to the streets and rooftops of New York City, to the stage of a multi-coloured fiesta at Vive Latino in Mexico City...

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Tracklisting: 
A1. TRABZON 120 BPM 
A2. TURBULENCIA 127 BPM 
B1. TOMADA (AUN MAS RUDO) 128 BPM 
B2. LECCIONES DE PERREO 120 BPM

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Germ - A1. Bamboo Groove II

I discovered a strange cat-like purring sound coming from the corner of the bedroom. The next day I discovered loads of wasps entering the house through a hole in the wall outside, they have built a nest in the cavity between the ceiling and the floorboards, possibly 2 - 3 square feet in size judging by the sound coming up through the carpet in the bedroom. This is the strange sound they make, particularly during the night. 

Recorded with 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8020 omni mikes into a Sound Devices 702 recorder. The mikes were placed on the floor and covered with a pillow and some weights, in order to get a better physical contact with the floor and reduce ambient noise, although this was recorded at night when there is very little going on outside, so what you can hear in this recording is the wasps.

Wasps' Nest At Night (Under Bedroom Floorboards)


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LIES-068
Jean Nipon-Tepco Cunts
from the upcoming three track 
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Jean Nipon-Tepco Cunts (LIES-068)

GERM - Caln

This is the 82nd recorded instore session at the PP Headquarters.
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