Vishmidt, Marina. 2008. The Cultural Logic of Criticality. Journal of Visual Arts Practice, 7(3), pp. 253-269. ISSN 1470-2029 [Article]

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The text is concerned with charting the emergence of ‘criticality’ as a technology of legitimation and power in contemporary art institutions and proximate discourses. ‘Criticality’ is examined as a ‘cultural logic’ and compared to different philosophical iterations of critique for the correspondences and divergences. Cybernetics provides a model for analysing how critique becomes functional to the maintenance of existing states of affairs, then other potential political avenues for critique as rhetorical stance and praxis are evaluated through case studies.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1386/jvap.7.3.253_1
Keywords:	art, critique, culture, dissent, public sphere, institutions, systems
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Centre for Cultural Studies (1998-2017)
Dates:	Date Event 7 September 2008 Published 13 June 2008 Accepted
Item ID:	19416
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2017 15:46
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2017 11:45
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/19416

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