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However, they also share many social and cultural features, not least of [248/249] which is the importance of cattle in their lives.[Note 2] Cattle are not just a food source, but a central factor in all aspects of their social and cultural activities, being used to mediate social relationships through the institutions of bridewealth and bloodwealth, as well as to mediate man’s relationship with God through their role as sacrificial victims. Moreover, the Nuer, Dinka, Atuot, and Mandari share a common history,[Note3] live in geographical proximity, and have extensive interrelations across the ‘borders’ that might be supposed to exist. | ANGELAKI fit journal of the theoretical humanities volume 6 number 3 december 2001 Art is thus confused with a cultural object and may give rise to any of the discourses to which anthropological data in general lend themselves. One could do a history sociology or political economy of it to mention just those few. One can easily show that its destination anthropologically speaking undergoes considerable modification depending on whether the artwork ÒbelongsÓ to a culture that is tribal imperial republican monarchical theocratic mercantile autocratic capitalist and so on and that it is a determining feature of the contemporary work that it is obviously destined for the museum collection conservation exhibition and for the museum audience. This approach is implied in any ÒtheoryÓ of art for the theory is made only of objects in order to determine them. But the work is not merely a cultural object although it is that too. It harbours within it an excess a rapture a potential of associations that overflows all the determinations of its ÒreceptionÓ and Òproduc-tion. Jean-Francois Lyotard Critical Reflections 93 How could it happen that in thinking about art in reading the art object we missed what art does best In fact we missed that which defines art the aesthetic because art is not an object amongst others at least not an object of knowledge or not only an object of knowledge . Rather art does something else. Indeed art is precisely antithetical to knowledge it works against what Lyotard once called the fantasies of realism The Postmodern Condition 93 . Which is to say that art might well be a part of the world after all it is a made thing but at the same time it is apart from the world. And this apartness however it is theorised is what constitutes art s importance. In this paper I want to think a little about this apartness this excess or rapture which as Lyotard remarks above constitutes art s effectiv- simon o sullivan THE AESTHETICS OF AFFECT thinking art beyond .

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