Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Leaving the culture is an ultimate gesture when our intention is to make the art that is closely tied to idea of the common. It’s important to underline that it is not “culture” what was/is the carrier of potential liberation, but the counterculture. “Culture” could be understood as society’s outer aesthetics that reflects its inner alienation. The culturalized art is bad conscience of biopolitical governance and at the same time one of its most dangerous weapons. Its destructive influence is being performed as virtual preserving of the common through art, while in fact it’s all about its more or less hidden decomposition. It is of vital importance to understand this trick. Leaving the culture might and must mean breaking some rules, doing what is allegedly impossible to do. Prohibitions challenge our fears and strengthen our powers.
Author: Nenad Jelesijević
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410131863