The monograph by Aleš Erjavec focusses on the outstanding meeting points of art and politics and the political in the 20th century. The author argues that throughout the 20th century a conflict between artistic autonomy and political instrumentalization occurred. He concludes that such art is frequently positioned on the very edge of the dividing line between autonomy and heteronomy and thus instrumentalization and that such a position is for art often the most effective. The author supports this view by detailed philosophical and historical analyses of artworks.
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Point of departure of the essay consists of two concepts, pleasure and desire, pointed out by Deleuze in his critique of Foucault, condemning the idea of pleasure as a rotten idea. For Foucault it is something positive, but is not desire, whihc is “out-of-joint”, something which can be properly considered only by departing from the break of Modernity. Foucault leaves this unthematized, he doesn't have and doesn't want to have a concept of crisis as such, that is why his own theoretical project for Deleuze succumbs to crisis.
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