This essay focuses the relations between art and politics in their mutual autonomy, which is seen as an epistemological condition for the study of that relation. We'll analyze how the ontological particularities of art (in what refers to its production, reception, and complex interweaving of its semantic and sensorial aspects) can give rise to politically charged events, and also how those particularities can be conciliated with political criticism without being aggressed and deformed by it. We'll argue that Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy serves this purpose well; nevertheless, to make their importance clear, this essay will be almost totally dedicated to exposing the conceptual features whose long life in the philosophical tradition has made the reflection about art and politics become frequently normative (which can be seen in the tutorial position that the philosopher assumes towards the receptor of art, and also quite often in the understanding that is given to the term "art"). We expect that the contrast between the rigor of these features, and the flexibility they acquire in the works of Deleuze e Guattari will show the possibility of a way out of the normative field.
Reception; Art Criticism; Aísthesis