While widely known for their respective critiques of bio-political regimes, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault also embarked on projects that found resistances to these apparatuses in art and aesthetics. This seminar will consider their less-often-studied aesthetic philosophies alongside their more well-known bio-political critiques. We will seek to understand how the aesthetic provides a counter to the politicization of life, and a way to access non-human, inhuman, impersonal, and inanimate forms of existence. Work by Mbembe, Bersani, Haver, Hartman, Berlant, Povinelli, Quashie, Best, and Stiegler will also be read.