Abstract
In the last thirty years we have witnessed a progressive expan-sion of interdisciplinarity and “postdisciplinary disciplines” like visual (culture) studies. This paper claims that this expansion relies mostly on a classificatory way of thinking, as opposed to an “exemplary” approach to historical, cultural, or artistic phe-nomena. It is maintained that working through “examples” is the most fruitful and adequate way of thinking in aesthetics and philosophy, both from a theoretical and a political point of view.
