The Axiomatic of Capitalism and the Ontology of the Art Assemblage

Authors

  • Andrija Filipović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i7.94

Keywords:

art, assemblage, axiomatic, capitalism, re-ontologization, re-politicization

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to offer an analytical reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and a critical application to the current state of affairs, that is, to the age of contemporaneity, which is marked by the relative immanence of the capitalist axiomatic. The concepts used in such a critical application are event, difference, immanence, force, and affect. Together, they serve as the basis for an ontology or, better yet, a re-ontologization of the art assemblage, a concept that aims to describe the way artworks are made locally and then gain certain global values, which the author calls (trans)individuation, and the potential for a re-politicization (becoming and complicity) of art in the 21st century.

Author Biography

Andrija Filipović

Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Serbia

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After the end of Soviet hegemony and the fall of socialist regimes in Central and Southeast Europe, the consideration of the relationship between art and politics seems urgent. The experience of more than two decades of political and structural changes toward the development of institutions of global capital also contributes to this urgency. The debate over the (political) nature of art becomes necessary, taking into account that this question has been superseded by a marketplace wherein all designations and forms of Art are available. It shows (itself) to be the best vehicle for manipulation and instrumentalization towards the current doxa that ‘everything is possible’. Moreover, the issue of the political aspect of art has been complicated by the dominant intellectual opinion and denunciations that all forms of utopian and social dimensions of art, as in the case of revolutionary and emancipatory perspectives of the avant-gardes, are responsible for the horrors of totalitarianism and terrorism. The aim of this issue therefore is to address the question of how to constitute and affirm an active Art today without slipping into essentialism. Focus Issue Editor: Bojana Matejić

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Published

15.04.2015

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Filipović, A. (2015). The Axiomatic of Capitalism and the Ontology of the Art Assemblage. AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, (7). https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i7.94

Issue

No. 7 (2015): Issue No. 7, April 2015 - Topic of Issue: Art and Politics: Agency, Autonomy, Emancipation

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Articles

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