How Else Can We Think About Art? Figurality, Aisthesis, and Visualization
摘要
The author asserts that the technosphere denotes the last frontier of metaphysical thought within which both aesthetics, as a philosophical discipline, and the aesthetic replaced by the concepts of aisthesis, figurality and visualization, after the end of all conceptual-categorical systems of thought about the essence of art from Immanuel Kant to Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schelling to Theodor Adorno, still appear as relics of language and its ontological structure of telling “about” the world. Aesthetics emerged during the rise of rationalism and modern technology. Aisthesis, figurality, and visualization are conceptual tools for what connects the thought of the technosphere and its world-forming “aesthetic objects”. The central problem of this article is to articulate post-aesthetic thinking. The conceptual tools are figurality, aisthesis, and visualization, and the central thesis argues that, within the technosphere, art as autopoietic semiosis becomes an assemblage of new categories and concepts that transcend all metaphysical matrices.