Commodity Fetishism and the Crisis of Contemporary Art

Epifanio  San Juan Jr.,

Commodity Fetishism and the Crisis of Contemporary Art

Discipline: Philosophy

Abstract:

Only through the objectively unfolded richness of man’s essential being is the richness of subjective human sensibility…either cultivated or brought into being…The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present. — KARL MARX The smell of impending death rose from these avantgardes. The future was no longer theirs, though nobody knew whose it was. — ERIC HOBSBAWM

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