The Aesthetic Rift: An Eco-Marxist Approach to the Capitalist Spatiality of Art

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2023-12-15

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Department of Film

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17

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Third Text, Volume 37, issue 3, pp. 391-407

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The development of industrial capitalism led to a reconfiguration of the social function of culture. A commodification of Western culture and fetishisation of art emerged that was inseparable from the expansion of this world system. This historical process consolidated insofar as it produced a series of material and imaginary rifts between interconnected spheres. In this article we analyse the way in which these rifts operated within aesthetics, economics and ecology, positing an eco-Marxist critique of the exhibition space and its associated social experience. Our analysis focuses first on the dawn of industrial modernity, highlighting the colonial and imperial matrix of this Eurocentric project. Secondly, the article underscores how contemporary art and the Great Acceleration of the ecosocial crisis are linked due to an exponential increase in the infrastructures of cultural industries. By exploring these connections, we show how the spatiality of contemporary art is linked to the dynamics that characterise the political, economic and cultural global system, interacting with the accumulation of ecosocial crises in which we are immersed.

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10.1080/09528822.2023.2288783

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Pedregal Villodres, A & Vindel, J 2023, 'The Aesthetic Rift: An Eco-Marxist Approach to the Capitalist Spatiality of Art', Third Text, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 391-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2288783

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