3 documents
# 149
Genealogies of Autonomy
Sven Lütticken and Marina Vishmidt in conversation
In the current political climate, neither your average plutocrat nor cultural administrator is ready to tolerate the “autonomy” of cultural and educational institutions, whether in the vein of pluralism or partisanship, even when a genocide is unfolding before our eyes. (And forget about enjoining historical and geopolitical context.) This makes it ever more clear that autonomy’s philosophical aesthetics should be approached in a spirit of genealogical-critical inquiry but also contested—not just discursively, as it has been for years, but also practically.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 5, 2024
Category
Contemporary Art, Fascism
Subjects
Autonomy, Neoliberalism, Socially Engaged Art
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 10, 2015
Category
Migration & Immigration, Film
Subjects
Video Art
# 43
“Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated”: Social Practice as Business Model
Marina Vishmidt
We have invented ourselves, so to speak, the social contradictions that made our freedom necessary. Where invented doesn’t mean made up but found and translated the facts that reveal their dormant political dimension.
—Claire Fontaine, “Human Strike Within the Field of Libidinal Economy”
The title “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated” comes from a phrase used in an essay by Theodor Adorno called “Situation,” published in his book Aesthetic Theory . In this essay Adorno…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2013
Category
Aesthetics, Economy, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Art Market, Socially Engaged Art, Autonomy