... change of focus from the study of the history of objects to the study of the history of reception, response, or reaction to visual phenomena.5 Also, and this is especially true of the German ... legitimately, I think of them as linked: the turn to affect, the return to phenomenology, the discussion of “presence” in aesthetic experience, new theories of materiality and of the agency of objects, ... interpreting the arts, that of the “counter-modern aesthetics”. This is at least what Berta Pérez’s discussion of the aesthetic aspect of Žižek’s Lacanian reading of films tries to prove ( The Aesthetic...