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    "pk": 2857,
    "title": "Logical Horses: Or Several Historical, Aesthetic, Allegorical, and Mythical Vignettes",
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    "abstract": "Logical Horses: Or Several Historical, Aesthetic, Allegorical, and Mythical Vignettes \nis a multi-tiered essay that  weaves historical accounts in relation to storytelling, science  fiction, and visual culture. The various methodologies detail instances  of categorization within aesthetic discourse while also narrating  absence––how exclusion/inclusion as polarities create conflicting  histories. The essay jumps historical time periods––a  problem I attempt to navigate by focusing on particular instances and  cases that relate together the \"cacophony\" of history, time and  aesthetics (using the concept of \"cacophony\" in line with Jodi Byrd’s  argumentation in \nThe Transit of Empire\n). The essay was edited  by 6 participants and colleagues, in order to treat  their art, writing and work as integral to the narratives established for  the service of my writing. The essay begins with a vignette on the  Jonathan Swift’s \nGulliver’s Travels, \nestablishing a thread regarding cultural and social othering as a broader social issue,  continued later in the essay specific to artistic aesthetics. Other  vignettes detail structures, such as Marxist thought, the history of  Western ideas like the \nGreat Chain of Being \nand institutions such as the College Art Association––analyzed as participants that promote certain artists over others as hierarchicalized authentic producers of art and culture, alternately falling into  dangerous territories of exotification when including subjectivities  previously excluded from the canon. Systems of connoisseurship and  validation (Sally Price), deference and preference within how language  is a tool for \"doing it right\" or \"wrong\" (Joanna Russ), and \"Liquid Blackness\" (a research collective and a term used by Black Studies  scholars), are themes throughout the essay that address particular  artists within and aside from the canon. Additionally interspersed  throughout the essay is a speculative science fiction narrative, a story  that unfolds under an alternative planetary setting, where resistances  to dominant cultural paradigms are taking place. The aim of this essay  is to, following Byrd’s idea of \"cacophony,\" place instances next to  each other so that the tensions of the narratives might trouble the  stability of monolithic canonical histories, and seek hybridity as a  methodology (though admittedly troubled as well)––what Byrd describes as \"opening doors,\" on the complex issues relevant to how colonialism,  cultural othering and aesthetics are interwoven.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Connoisseurship, Aesthetics, Outsider, Cacophony, Colonialism, Beverly Buchanan, Survivance, Metaphysical Pathos, Marxism, Science Fiction, Myth, The Enlightenment, The Great Chain of Being"
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    ],
    "section": "Special Section Articles",
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        {
            "first_name": "Catherine",
            "middle_name": "Erica",
            "last_name": "Czacki",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC San Diego",
            "department": "None"
        }
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    "date_submitted": "2019-02-05T00:42:42Z",
    "date_accepted": "2019-02-05T00:42:42Z",
    "date_published": "2019-05-10T20:10:48Z",
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