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| MARCUS STEINWEG |
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EXPERIENCE OF INCONSISTENCY
LECTURE: GHENT
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Theodor W. Adorno
Art was never anything other than consent to the fragility of its times. Art does not come from a stable situation; it is the experience of the inconsistency of its reality. Art exists only as the experience of the porosity of the system of facts. Therefore, for it, there cannot be any alliance with facts, which does not mean that it disputes or misrecognizes their power. But art does not exhaust itself in demonstrating this non-misrecognition through the analytical power that is also immanent within it. As long as art does not surpass its knowledge, it is not art. It would be nothing other than a self-reassurance for the subject within the web of its critically commentated situation. Only an assertion of form that evades a narcissistic self-reassuring by articulating the transience of the certainty of facts succeeds in confronting the universal inconsistency that is the subject’s proper time and proper place.
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