Ontologie polityczne sztuki. Lenin, estetyka relacyjna i produkcja biopolityczna / Political Ontologies of Art. Lenin, Relational Aesthetics and Biopolitical Production

LENIN, RELATIONAL AESTHETICS AND BIOPOLITICAL PRODUCTION The entanglement of art in capitalism makes the artistic production particularly interesting from the perspective of the Marxist analysis. On the one hand, art is a place where you can really see the mechanisms that constitute the logic of the entire system.

On the other hand, it can become a field of a possible resistance. To understand today’s discussions about the relationship between the contemporary art and politics, the author proposes to look at the ontological-political presumption of this dispute. One of the theses of this article states, that political results (if any) may be obtained by means of art only through art theorisation in context of changes in the contemporary capitalism.