What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy

Description: On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy. On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy. Written in the wake of the far-right populist turn in Europe, the US, and beyond, What We Do Is Secret addresses aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy, proposing a theory of conspiracy that is not primarily concerned with conspiracy theory. This inquiry takes shape across chapters on the politics of post-internet art aesthetics; the sublime and possessive individualism in recent "critical" art; Cady Noland's security fences, and silkscreens of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and mutuality, secrecy, and improvisation in the work of Ima-Abasi Okon. Larne Abse Gogarty discusses the relationship between culture and contemporary politics, following on from David Lloyd's proposition that through its compensatory qualities, the aesthetic sphere naturalizes forms of life lived under the rule of property. What kind of art can work against this? Can art exist as a conspiracy capable of corroding that rule?

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EAN: 9783956795626

UPC: 9783956795626

ISBN: 9783956795626

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Book Title: What Wedo Is Secret : Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy

Number of Pages: 184 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Topic: Conspiracy Theories, History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics

Publication Year: 2023

Item Height: 0.7 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Art, Social Science

Item Weight: 9.5 Oz

Author: Larne Abse Gogarty

Item Length: 8.3 in

Book Series: Sternberg Press / the Antipolitical Ser.

Item Width: 5.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback