Sistema de incompatibilidad: arte y sociedad en la estética de la negatividad

Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo

doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1234

System of incompatibility: Art and society in the aesthetics of negativity

Authors

Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4199-2478

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Abstract

Adorno’s philosophical reflections on aesthetical theory confront us with a duplicity which hinders an understanding of the relation of art with the problems of capitalist culture. On the one hand, artistic objects are defined by a singularity which differentiates them from the verbal practices and the validity base that nourishes social institutions. On the other hand, aesthetical phenomena are facts which cannot deny their inscription into a specific social framework. In this sense, Adorno presents the work of art as a “system of incompatibility” where unbridgeable determinations clash with each other. In this paper we address this paradox from the perspective of the aesthetics of negativity and develop its potentialities for contemporary social thought on art.

Keywords

Theodor Adorno, aesthetical negativity, artistic autonomy, social theory

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Author Biography

Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo has a PhD in Social Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires where he works as a graduate and postgraduate teacher in the area of philosophy and social theory. He is the author of El lenguaje del sufrimiento: Estética y política en la teoría social de Theodor Adorno (2018). He has published several papers on social theory, philosophy and cultural criticism. His areas of research are the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the sociology of neoliberalism and political philosophy.