PT Journal
AU Motal, J
SO ArteActa
PY 2021
BP 81
EP 102
VL 4
IS 2
DI 10.62804/aa.2021.014
DE Marxism; christology; non-standard philosophy; negative theology; intellectual; the field of cultural production; performativity; victim
AB The essay is a commentary on the translation of Francois Laruelle's text "On the Black Universe". It presents the key ideas of his non-standard philosophy, relating them to a critique of Marxism (the notion of "the last instance") and contemporary forms of negative theology. Darkness is conceived in both political and religious dimensions. The author presents Laruelle's conception of immanence in a soteriological perspective, as a precondition for a radical transformation of humanity in relation to the real. This interpretation is applied to the position of the artist in the late modern situation, and an outline of the dominant position of the artist-intellectual is presented. For art to meet the demands of Laruelle's program, it must suspend its domination, that is, acknowledge its inadequacy, but equally it must not succumb to the domination of other disciplines, such as politics or philosophy. This "heretical" position allows the artist to recover a relationship with the real and generic humanity, from which alone, according to Laruelle, a truly radical transformation can emerge.
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