Illusion Only Is Sacred from the Culture Industry to the Aesthetic Economy  

Oleh:

Roberts, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 73 no. 1 (Mei 2003), page 83–95.
Topik: aesthetic economy; culturalism; culture industry; spirit of capitalism; world picture
Fulltext: 83TE731.pdf (91.15KB)

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Integral to the modern paradigm of cultural critique is an entropic vision of the 'completion' of modernity reaching from Heidegger and Adorno to Debord and Baudrillard. Are contemporary cultural developments to be grasped in terms of this 'completion' or do we need a more open-ended account of capitalism and culture? The article examines two key aspects of contemporary culture, both tied to processes of aestheticization and commodification since the 18th century: the progression from the culture industry (Adorno) to the aesthetic economy (Böhme), premised on the creation of aesthetic value in addition to use and exchange value; the progression from the 'age of the world picture' (Heidegger) to culturalism, in which the culturalization of nature and history responds to the reduction of nature and history to standing reserves.

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