(P/B) THE CONSPIRACY OF ART

Παρουσίαση

The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeli wall. This is where the truth of these images lies. Truth, but not veracity. As virtual as the war itself, their specific violence adds to the specific violence of the war.
In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the "end of art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function within the process of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.
Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylve`re Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents Baudrillard's writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media. Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of the spectacular images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

INTRODUCTION
The Piracy of Art by Sylvere Lotringer
PROVOCATION
The Conspiracy of Art
A Conjuration of Imbeciles
In the Kingdom of the Blind...
CONTROVERSY
Starting from Andy Warhol
Art Between Utopia and Anticipation
No Nostalgia for Old Aesthetic Values
La Commedia dell'Arte
Too Much is Too Much
ILLUSIONS
Art Contemporary... of Itself
Towards the Vanishing Point of Art
Aesthetic Illusion and Disillusion
IMPLOSIONS
The Implosion of Beaubourg
The Violence of Indifference
Viral Economy
Radical Thought
REALITY-SHOWS
Dust Breeding
Telemorphosis
The Matrix revisited
War Porn
IMAGINARY SOLUTIONS
Pataphysics
Forget Artaud (Jean Baudrillard / Sylvere Lotringer)