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5 days agoWhat Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?
Duchamp's work reflects a continuous dialogue between past and future, showcasing his genius in anticipating museum logic.
The reason why useful art will change the world is that art, as we have come to know it since the 18th century, is the subject of 'neoliberal occupation', government regulation and commercial sponsorship. It has become useless, but not because the aesthetic exists in a Kantian separate world, but because, like everything else, including ourselves, it has become part of the neoliberal circulation of commodities, instrumentalised by the creative industries.