The Postconceptual Condition by Peter Osborne

Author:Peter Osborne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

Artworks are subject to constant transformation by the system of relations into which they enter as part of their reception, which retroactively changes our understanding of what they are. As a part of this, ‘historical understanding [Verstehen]’ is itself ‘an afterlife of that which has been understood [des Verstandenen] and whose pulse can be felt in the present’. It is the critical task of the collection ‘[t]o put to work an experience with history’, so understood, ‘a history that is orginary for every present’. Such a putting-to-work is said to ‘blast the epoch out of its reified “historical continuity”, and thereby the life out of the epoch, and the work out of the lifework’, in such a way as to result, paradoxically, in ‘the lifework in the work, the epoch in the lifework, and the course of history in the epoch being preserved and superseded [aufbewahrt und aufgehoben]’.13

What light does this constructivist historical ontology throw upon the structure of the postconceptual work and the new institutional practices with which it is bound up?

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