Emancipaton, Duty and Artistic Subject
Abstract: In the ’Third Sketch for a Manifesto of Armationist Art’ (’Troisiéme esquisse d’une manifeste de l’armationnisme’), Badiou brings together the concepts of Universality, the Senses and Duty in Art. The author will try toreassess the concept of Duty in Badiou’s conception of Armationist Art, examining the problems of, 1. How is an Emancipatory Art possible in the context of the anti-humanist condition? and 2. What is the ontological and epistemological status of anin-humanity as a fundamental presupposition of human emancipation in Art? It will be argued that the artistic formalizationof the Subject(s) – which is ‘impersonal and singular’, as Badiou asserts – would not be possible without any human participation in the process of subjectication towards human emancipation. The author will demonstrate how it is possible tothink the concept of Duty in the aesthetic realm, on the basis of Badiou’s presupposition of the Subjective Universality of Artand Župančić’s reading of Lacanian theory.
engleski
2014
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Key words: Emancipation, Art, Duty, Anti-Humanism, Subject, Badiou, Marx, Zupančić