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The Official World
By
Duke University Press
Copyright:
© 2016 Duke University Press
2016
Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7445-9
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Introduction to the Official World
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Published:April 2016
This part sets out the premises of the official world and describes the emergence of a self-reporting form of society: its cultural technologies and its aesthetic techniques. It defines the epoch of social systems and our indoor social life. The chapter shows how suspense becomes a world principle and stress an aesthetic category. It defines a modern anthropotechnics, or art with humans. It redefines the action zones of a modern world that stages its own conditions and the place of the work of art in it.
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