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Against Art and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Against Art and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of
culture, this book establishes the concept of 'art/culture' to
describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour,
idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification.
Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined
'art/culture' , this book demonstrates that the failure to
appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported
negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture
being defences of a 'true' art or culture against 'inauthentic'
manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to
the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence
that art/culture enables commodification has long been available,
the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world
of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a
nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of
ideological power, the book considers how the 'surplus' of
art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather
than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a
post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that
challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the
integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An
out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique
contribution to the cultural critique landscape.
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