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In this paper I will try to reassess the implications of a “(neo)Marxist” conception of art becoming life, which is, in my opinion, the crucial, intrinsic presupposition of a human/social emancipation in and by arts. My aim is to follow the path of this “Marxist” maxim in Badiou’s conceptual approach via “early” Marxist theoretical accounts, and to try to develop a (maybe not “revolutionary New,” but still practically effective) mode of thinking the possibility of its realization in the present artistic state of affairs.
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Luca Basso, “Gattungswesen and Politics: From the Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State to The Holy Family,” Marx and Singularity. From the Early Writings to the “Grundrisse”, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012, 26.
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Karl Marx, “Part I. Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook. The Illusion of the Epoch. Civil Society and the Conception of History,” The German Ideology, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968, 2.
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Karl Marx, “Marx to Ruge,” Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Early Writings, trans. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton, London: Penguin Books, 1992, 208.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., 221.
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Ibid., 222.
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Ibid., 334.
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Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,” Early Writings, 350.
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Ibid.
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Leonard P. Wessell, “The Aesthetics of Living Form in Schiller and Marx,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 37, no. 2 (1978), 189–201.
- 11.
Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,” 350.
- 12.
Ibid.
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Karl Marx, “Estranged Labour,” Early Writings, 329.
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Ibid., 327.
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Mikhail Lifshitz, The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx, New York: Pluto Press, 1976, 52.
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Wessell, “The Aesthetics of Living Form in Schiller and Marx,” 196.
- 17.
Ibid., 199.
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Marx, “Private Property and Communism,” Early Writings, 352.
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“Transi” would seem to imply a reference to the Latin “trans-ire,” suggesting a transitory zone of transition, transit, and also, perhaps, the transience evoked in a “transi” that is a tombstone effigy evoking mortality and decomposition. “Transi” also carries the sense of a sensation of icy chill. Cf. Alain Badiou, “Troisiéme esquisse d’une manifeste de l’ affirmationnisme”, Circonstances 2, Paris, Léo Scheer, Lignes, 2004, p. 98.
- 20.
Alain Badiou, “Third Sketch of a Manifesto of Affirmationist Art,” Polemics, London: Verso, 2006, 144.
- 21.
Alain Badiou, “Lacan,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, London: Bloomsbury, 2013, 479.
- 22.
Ibid.
- 23.
Alain Badiou, “Democratic Materialism and Materialist Dialectics,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 2.
- 24.
Ibid., 453.
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Ibid.
- 26.
Alain Badiou, “Book VII: What Is a Body,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 453.
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Alain Badiou, “Theater Happening 1967,” eds. A. Badiou, Bernard Blistene, and Yann Chateigne, A Theater Without Theater, Barcelona: MACBA, 2008, 120.
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Alex Potts, “Writing the Happening: The Aesthetics of Nonart,” Art as Life, London: Thames & Hudson, 2008, 25.
- 29.
Gino di Maggio, “Fluxus: Kunst als individuelle Revolution Oder Utopie als Gewerbe?” Flash Art and Heute Kunst, no. 16 (1976), 14–15.
- 30.
Alain Badiou, “The Body of the Poem,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 466.
- 31.
Ibid., 467.
- 32.
Ibid., 470.
- 33.
Alain Badiou, “Logic of the Site: Consequences and Existence,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 369.
- 34.
Alain Badiou, “Simple Becoming and True Change,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 363.
- 35.
Alain Badiou, “Ontology of the Site,” Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II, 466.
- 36.
Alain Badiou, The Century, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008, 178.
- 37.
Alain Badiou, “Lacan,” 481.
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The “Two” is one of the specific Badiou’s notions that he borrowed from the mathematical discourse; however, in his philosophy/theory it means antagonism (in political terms, avant-garde). The “Two” is always against totality (“One”). Please check: http://www.lacan.com/divide.htm
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Matejić, B. (2018). The Appearance of Truth in Art: Body, Subjectivation and the Generic Life. In: Gržinić, M., Stojnić, A. (eds) Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance. Avant-Gardes in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78343-7_11
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