On the Relationship between the Aesthetic and the Political in Late Modernity

The article addresses the aesthetic and the political as modern modes of practice that are discursively separated, but nevertheless continuously involved in a conflictual interplay with one another. The article discusses the nature of the limits between the aesthetic and the political, and makes the argument that the interplay between the two modes of practice occurs in the shape of a variety of different forms of mutual intervention and that these forms of intervention represent qualitatively different perspectives for the further development of modern culture and society.