Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Condition of Possibility and Limit Are the Same Thing?
Art is just an instance of the general problem of meaning or action as such. Any action we take is, you know, in many, many ways, in sort of the preponderance of ways, not ours. So what does intention even mean? Like, does that have any sort of sense? You can see how this relates to the work of art, right? In the sense that like the determinations that aren't the work of Art are again, infinite.
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