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Art Power by Boris Groys
$23.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In ...Show more
Becoming an Artwork by Boris Groys
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Modern history is a history of aesthetizations – and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no exception. They also present themselves as object ...Show more
In the Flow by Boris Groys
$31.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit, as works of art as sacred object was decried and they would be understood as merely things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as the traditional preservative mission of the museum ...Show more
In the Flow by Boris Groys
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. ...Show more
Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Groys Boris and Fernbach David(Translated by)
$39.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Retracing the philosophical discussions around care our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is pr ...Show more
The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as ...Show more
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