Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: privilege," a particular structure of feeling and aesthetic mode dominant in Scandinavian public cultures, which she calls skeptimentality.In contrast to the familiar notion of sentimentality-theorized by scholars such as Saidiya Hartman and Laurent Berlant-which conveys a positive "meta-response" to a positive "basic feeling," the skeptimental mode is more ambiguous.Its "meta-response" is not positive but generally negative, and its modus operandi is therefore not sympathy but complicity; not trust in the virtue of oneself and the world, but mistrust.For Sharma, this aesthetic mode is at stake in Ruben Östlund's film The Square, which problematizes Scandinavian public culture's own struggle with its "predicament of privilege," the logic of which is expressed in the seemingly banal question: "Is this okay?"
Source: The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Authors: Maja Bak Herrie, Tobias Dias
Institution: Aarhus University
Language: English
Topic: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405565320
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