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Boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally renowned expert on sovietera art and literature, specifically, the russian avantgarde. Boris groys and the total art of stalinism yanli he, 2019. Boris efimovich groys born 19 march 1947 is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He describes software as the internal combustion engine of the information society, arguing that it is in software that the new cultural logic manifests itself most clearly. Boris groys is a russian theoretician displaced to germany and also to nyu whose works are only just now being made available in english. The image constitutes the scene of a frustrated linguistic desire. If you repeat already collected art, your art is qualified by the. This dialogue is regulated by the way in which we define the legitimate questions that we. I have published a lot of stuff about it as open access here. Groys is a formidable thinker, and his books deserve wider recognition in the englishspeaking world. Towards the new realism, boris groys reality realism. On the new 23 on the curatorship 43 art in the age of biopolitics. Boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally renowned expert on sovietera art and literature, especially the russian avantgarde.
Page after page, groys formulates ingenious constructions that describe the unique characteristics of the cultural artifacts of our time, while simultaneously compelling the reader to think in a distinctly artistic way about these artifacts. Boris is a free and opensource software available for gnulinux, windows and mac os x. Boris groys is professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university, senior research fellow at the academy of design in karlsruhe, germany, and professor at the european graduate school in saas fee, switzerland. The man who flew into space from his apartment, and, most recently, art power. In the process of articulating the rheologyor fluidityof art, each chapter elucidates a new potential for. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of boris groys s investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.
Boris efimovich groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. In the flow not only aptly describes boris groys brilliantly astute state of mind when writing this book, but also signals the incredible journey the reader will take around some of the most pervasive cultural constructs of our time. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, boris groys focuses on the medias affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. With this reconfiguration of the museum, the viewers gaze also changes. Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. Space from his apartment 2006 and art power 2008, both published by the mit press. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician boris groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art markets fiats of inclusion and. He is global distinguished professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university and professor of philosophy at the european graduate school in saasfee, switzerland. Michael hardt and boris groys and the curators molly. Artists can make a hash of society as completely as the most cynical of politicians.
Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers. Benjamin himself talks about profane enlightenment in this context and writes at this point. From the ruins of communism, boris groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. But for more than a century now, every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving arts distinction. The reader, the thinker, the waiting person and the. Boris groys curating in the postinternet age one hears time and again that contemporary art is elitist because it is selective, and that it should be democratized. This is a cuttingedge and systematic examination of contemporary culture by the creator of the field of software studies. Please acknowledge and cite the use of this software and its authors when results are used in publications or published elsewhere. He has been a professor of aesthetics, art history, and media theory at the karlsruhe university of arts and designcenter for art. Boris groys pdf, 1 lebenswelt, 11 forum boris groys in the flow london new york, verso, discussants. One of the most influential voices in contemporary cultural theory on how to make it new. On the new looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern cultures key sites. Boris groys 1947, east berlin is professor of aesthetics, art history, and media theory at the center for art and media karlsruhe and global distinguished professor at new york university.
Proceeding from lessings distinction between poetry and visual art, boris groys argues that language is not external to, but resides behind, the image. Nikolai fedorov, boris groys, valerian muravyev, alexander svyatogor, konstantin tsiolkovsky, anton vidokle, brian kuan wood boris groys is professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university, senior research fellow at the academy of design in karlsruhe, germany, and professor at the european graduate school in saas fee, switzerland. The border between word and image boris groys, 2011. If we look at the avantgarde writings, their programs and manifestoes, they tell you all the same. Boris groys s introduction to media, new media, postmedia. Groys argues instead that the total art proposed by stalin and his followers was formulated by welleducated elites who had assimilated the experience of the avantgarde and been brought to socialist realism by the futureoriented logic of avantgarde thinking. But in recent decades we have seen the growing presence of digital images in the context of traditional art institutions. Boris groys 1947, east berlin is professor of aesthetics, art history, and media. Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Download pdf boris groys free online new books in politics.