<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>It has become a commonplace to consider the ideal of an artistic work attitude as being the very driving force behind today’s “aesthetic capitalism.” The present contribution questions this notion and shows that the exemplary model of the artist merely represents one component of a much larger “regime of potentiality.” Thus, the article propounds the analysis of “potentialism” as an approach that might help to grasp the reproductive logics of late capitalism without reducing them to a “creativity dispositive.”</p></abstract>

It has become a commonplace to consider the ideal of an artistic work attitude as being the very driving force behind today’s “aesthetic capitalism.” The present contribution questions this notion and shows that the exemplary model of the artist merely represents one component of a much larger “regime of potentiality.” Thus, the article propounds the analysis of “potentialism” as an approach that might help to grasp the reproductive logics of late capitalism without reducing them to a “creativity dispositive.”

Monitoring through Potentiality. Essay on the Artist Taken as an Exemplary Model

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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It has become a commonplace to consider the ideal of an artistic work attitude as being the very driving force behind today’s “aesthetic capitalism.” The...

Monitoring through Potentiality. Essay on the Artist Taken as an Exemplary Model

Published Online: May 29, 2017

Page range: 423 - 444

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0022

Keywords
art, capitalism, (re)production, potential, (self-)sufficiency

© 2017 Denis Hänzi, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Monitoring through Potentiality. Essay on the Artist Taken as an Exemplary Model

Published Online: May 29, 2017

Page range: 423 - 444

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0022

Keywordsart, capitalism, (re)production, potential, (self-)sufficiency

© 2017 Denis Hänzi, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
art, capitalism, (re)production, potential, (self-)sufficiency