4 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 12, 2023
Category
War & Conflict, Fascism
Subjects
Europe
# 28
Neo-Materialism, Part Three: The Language of Commodities
Joshua Simon
Continued from “Neo-Materialism, Part Two: The Unreadymade” in issue 23.
Yet what is here already very plainly expressed is the idea of the future conversion of political rule over men into an administration of things …
—Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880)
In his 1898 “The Beginnings of Ownership,” Thorstein Veblen explains how we have arrived at the notion of property through our understanding of its subjectivity. Veblen presents a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2011
Category
Modernism
Subjects
Materialism, Commodification, Animism, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Subjectivity
# 23
Neo-Materialism, Part II: The Unreadymade
Joshua Simon
→ Continued from “Neo-Materialism, Part I: The Commodity and the Exhibition” in issue 20.
Readymade and Unreadymade
Traditionally, by employing a series of strategies incorporating appropriation, composition, abstraction, re-contextualization, and de-contextualization of different commodities, modern art tried to see an entity beyond the ever-present commodity. In an art context, the commodity, this omnipresent “other entity” with which we are engaged in a network of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2011
Category
Economy
Subjects
Materialism, Appropriation Art , Readymade, Commodification, Dematerialization, Dada
# 20
Neo-Materialism, Part I: The Commodity and the Exhibition
Joshua Simon
It is perfectly understandable that the dandy, the man who is never ill at ease, would be the ideal of a society that had begun to experience a bad conscience with respect to objects. What compelled the noblest names of England, and the regent himself, to hang on every word that fell from Beau Brummell’s lips was the fact that he presented himself as the master of science that they could not do without. To men who had lost their self-possession, the dandy, who makes of elegance and the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2010
Category
Contemporary Art, Marxism , Capitalism, Film, Economy
Subjects
Materialism, Commodification, Use Value & Exchange Value, Video Art, Money & Finance