Culture as Capital

Slavko Kacunko

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Slavko Kacunko, Culture as Capital (2015), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832589431

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Beschreibung / Abstract

By following and reproducing the cultural turn, the rhetoric of the cultural mix and hybridism is disseminated today, primarily in its crossing of trade barriers. Cultures reduced to their exchange value function as capital - an accumulative, speculative and, ultimately, financial affair. In some of its media and site-(un)specific manifestations, process art - which aims to encompass both old and new media art - seems to resist this pressure, despite, nonetheless, not being protected from regulations and incorporations. In the present collection of his recent essays, Slavko Kacunko discusses the process art by crossing the disciplines of art history and comparative media-, visual- and -cultural studies.

As a first approximation, several historiographical remarks on closed-circuit video installations underline their importance as a core category of process art. In the second part, the problems of process art, seen as a threshold of art history, are further examined in another retro-analytical step, in which concepts and objects related to `mirror', `frame' and `immediacy' are analyzed as the triple delimitation of visual culture studies. In the third part, previously outlined manifestations of what is termed the `post-visual condition' are summarized and projected to the `coreless core' of the emerging art and research related to the coreless beings par excellence, the bacteria.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • BEGINN
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: Cultural turn and speculative capital
  • 1.1 Correlation matrix and speculative reason
  • 1.2 Temporality and process
  • 2 Roads to recursion. Some historiographical remarks on a core category of process art
  • 2.1 Closed circuit as an open system
  • 2.2 Closed-circuit recursions in the roaring nineties
  • 2.3 Closed circuit beyond digital dogma
  • 3 Reflecting thresholds. Unseen images and untold processes
  • 3.1 Video as medium of speculative seeing and hearing
  • 3.2 Video as a function of reality. Peter Campus
  • 3.3 Bill Viola†™s closed circuit video, 1972–76
  • 3.4 Patterns of transition
  • 4 Process art in education, research and archiving. Two case studies
  • 4.1 Video art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, 1976–96: the educational and technological context
  • 4.2 Finite technology and infinite aesthetics
  • 4.3 Caught while escaping: a personal retro-perspective
  • 4.4 Process art, archives and databases
  • 4.5 Process art in networked research communities
  • 5 Mirroring the invisible. Culture, technology and (self-)observation
  • 5.1 Mirror and image: the extension of light and mirror spectra
  • 5.2 Liquid mirrors: art and commerce, nature and architecture
  • 6 Margins moved to the middle. Process art within visual studies
  • 6.1 Visual culture and visual communication: theoretical framing
  • 6.2 Process art and the syntax of dynamisation
  • 6.3 Camera. Monitor. Frame. Takahiko Iimura
  • 7 On speculative difference
  • 7.1 Framing fossils: on origins, images and acts
  • 7.2 Will the image have the last word?
  • 8 Culture as capital in media democracy. Envisioning the post-visual condition
  • 8.1 The political economy of the game: aleatoric agony
  • 8.2 Mirroring the mass-mediation: the democratization of photography
  • 8.3 Speculative difference revisited: Magic realism and rational symbolism
  • 9 Great Dane meets Dalmatian. Ejnar Dyggve and the mapping of Christian archaeology
  • 9.1 Frames and frontiers, crossroads and continuities
  • 9.2 Mapping motifs and methodologies
  • 9.3 The beginnings of architectural historiography
  • 9.4 Province, frontier, periphery: mapping the cultures between Jelling and Salona
  • 9.5 Rewind to the future: recent research on Dyggve in context
  • 10 Coreless. Bacteria, art, and other incommodities
  • 10.1 Big bacteria: a future framework for the arts, sciences and humanities
  • 10.2 Life, death and dusty rebirth:bacterial circuits and infinitesimal aesthetics
  • List of Illustrations
  • References by Chapter
  • Bibliography by Chapter
  • Author†™s references
  • Index

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