capitalism and aisthesis - life, appearance and art in walter benjamin's work
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Capitalism and Aisthesis – life, appearance and art in Walter Benjamin’s work
Taina Rajanti
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“a question of how life and work are organized in human society “
Combining Walter Benjamin’s work on effect of capitalism on life and art with his earlier work: what has “beautiful appearance” to do with life that is lived “in the heart of unreal, the appearance”?
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Shiny appearance and alienation
“The fantasque escrime of the city in the tableaux parisiens is no more the place where you come from. It is a stage and estranged.”
“Odradek is "the form that things take in forgetfulness. They are distorted.”
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Beautiful appearance and the inexpressed
“(The inexpressed) thus breaks that what in every beautiful appearance remains of the false totality, heritage of chaos: the false totality – absolute totality. Only it completes the work of art by making it into a “piece”, a fragment of the true world”
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Politicize aesthetics – not aestheticize politics
The task or potential of art is not in rendering a beautiful appearance to a world destroyed by capitalism, but in rendering a necessary appearance to life, and thus breaking the false totality and the shining surface distorting the sensible.