Art-swill for Dummies
I think that Groys that Kaspet - just arguer (see!). The difference between them only in that Kaspet notes and Groys - "preaching". Yes, so enthusiastically that he drags from his heresy.
In practice, except for attempts to manipulate the consciousness of uncritically minded people and verbal gymnastics, their "works" does not contain any ideas. That is, none at all. Emptiness. Vacuum ...
Explain why many sheets that control the money market? Why should this money to assign some sort of mystical essence, animating them? The money - only the agent of someone's will. And "someone" has a last name, first name and patronymic.
From this perspective, analyze the art market, like any market, much easier. Not so interesting, of course, how to blow esoteric - a mystical haze, diluted provocative religious excursions (Groys). But very effective.
This applies both to the local art and cultural projects, and to the global. Simply, different amounts of money involved in the process. At planetary scale, the same cultural policy defines one who dengopechatnym owns the machine.
In small-town - is the many curators, kuratorishki and other unscrupulous people "of art. They do not stop at nothing in their desire podlezt closer to the trough, saturate through the machine.
This is a normal process of commodity-money circulation, rulimy market-makers and having absolutely nothing to do with culture or the arts, as tuzhatsya not prove Groys with Kaspetami.
There is much more than ideology and politics than the actual market. The objective - the creation of a "cultural paradigm", in which the concept of art, and it elevates the role of the fully diluted, and the consolidation of this "new religion" in our minds.
Then the art can be called at any swill and assign it a monetary denomination. That is what they generate meanings. Same category of people, shake a leg at the trough, will be able to consider themselves not only dealers, and aesthetes, and more ...
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