Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts (Global Aesthetic Research)

In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points out the dangers and downfalls that accompany such a boom of the creative industries and the subordination of art to the economy and politics. Specifically, it shows that art, as a mode of social and aesthetic practice, is losing the very thing which it has striven for so desperately in the course of modernity: its independence from other spheres of human activity. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Openness of Art The Semantic and Formal Openness of Art The Modern Universe and Perceptual Openness The Issues with Truth and Intention The Relevance of Interpretation The Death of Art: Dissolution of Art into Philosophy The Loss of Autonomy of Art Chapter 2: Playing with Algorithms Subverting the Program The Program of Evolution and the Art of Biotechnology Smart Technologies Chapter 3: Tactics of Resistance to the Governance over the Bodies Apparatuses and Profanation Political Resistance with Taking over the Power over One’s Own Body The Power over the Body of Becoming-Mother/Child Chapter 4: Science, Technology, and the Arts Art as a Mechanical Art Science as Apparatus Art as a Machine: Pure Productivity The Potential of a Magical Approach toward New Media Chapter 5: Hybrid Art and the Democratization of Science The Third Culture Mode 2 Science Formation The Democratization of Science The Artistic Use of Biotechnology Art as a Promotor of Capitalist Ideologies? Chapter 6: Swimming against the Current The Legacy of the Avant-Garde ~ Take-off: Retro-Avant-Garde and Retro-Utopianism Tactical Media The Global Empire and Evasion Media Activism Hacking Revealing the Codification Chapter 7: Art as Investment The World of Art and Its Market Art as a Commodity: The Autonomization of Art in Capitalist Society The End of Art for the Rise of the Art Market: Banalities Made Art Advertising Tactics for Making Art Chapter 8: Art Addressing Consumerism Art as the Unconcealment of the Truth Interventions into the Temples of Consumption Art in the Phase of Late Capitalism Chapter 9: Creativity in the Service of Capital: The Cultural and Creative Industries The Creative Economy Art as Craft and Autonomous Art: Creativity in Western Tradition Creativity in the Cultural and Creative Industries: The Importance of the Market Art and the Social Revolution: The Concept of Art according to the Romantic Tradition The Self-Destruction of the Enlightenment Afterword: What Is There Left for Art to Do? Sources and Bibliography Index "This book addresses the role of art and creative practices in contemporary society"-- Provided by publisher