What is it about?
to the thinking of “artistic volition” formulated by Alois Riegl and his pupil Wilhelm Worringer around 1900. For Riegl and Worringer, this volition – which is most visible in architecture and the applied arts – precedes all functionality. Finally, with Walter Benjamin, who was strongly influenced by Riegl and Worringer, the text asks what kind of “artistic volition” and “magma” can be read in these giant industrial plants and infrastructures.
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Why is it important?
The article deals in an innovative way with the questions of industrial heritage and the afterlife of infrastructures of extraction in Europe in examining the aesthetics of industrial infrastructure—the "sensuous cognition" it allows for. In this, the article also addresses the social imaginary of extractivism until today.
Perspectives
In the following years, I want to analys more precisely an in case studies several artistic works—often site-specific—that deal with industrial heritage and ongoing extractivism in the global south.
Jörn Etzold
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
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This page is a summary of: Ästhetik industrieller Infrastruktur, Sprache und Literatur, July 2023, Brill Deutschland GmbH,
DOI: 10.30965/25890859-05201003.
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