Sep 10, 2015
“[...] all autonomy is an illusion - since it is, simultaneously, both autonomous and a social fact - and yet, paradoxically, all-too real, insofar as the social seperation it marks determines art’s place within the devided reality of capitalist modernity as a whole; a seperation which, given that it is part of a larger social structure, art itself cannot simply overcome. Autonomy, that is to say, is not a straightforward choice, to be accepted or otherwise, but rather defines a ‘situation’ that art must work with under the conditions of capitalism.”