Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art
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Marina Vishmidt
Abstract
This essay is concerned with tracing the political dimensions of the ‘anomaly’ – in a period when the structuring conditions that the term refers to emerge rather as the ‘new normal’, even as historical continuities come to light and reveal that little is altogether new. We can see this in debates on whether contemporary art is exceptional or exemplary in a political economy characterised by the precarity of labour and life amidst relentless commodification. In this light, the article attends to the epistemic ‘economies’ of the rule and the exception, in order to foreground debates over value production in Marxist feminist and ecological theories of reproductive labour, with some attention as well to critical theories of race. This is an attempt to ground the status of the anomalous as a key means for the politics of artistic work and labour in the present.
© 2018 Marina Vishmidt, published by De Gruyter
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Debatte: The Summer of Art 2017 (continuation)
- Courbet at documenta 14 – Charity and Other Alternative Economies
- Aufsätze
- “A very civil idea …” Art History, Transculturation, and World-Making – With and Beyond the Nation
- Themenschwerpunkt: Ökonomien Des Sozialen
- Einleitung: Der Marktwert der Kapitalismuskritik Ein Dilemma der Gegenwartskunst
- Wirksame Kunst. Spektakel als kritische Form und soziale Praxis
- Feeling and Form in Mark Bradford’s American Pavilion
- Für eine meta-ethische Wende. Anmerkungen zur neueren Verantwortungsästhetik
- Reworking Effectiveness: Art as a Politic of Redistribution – Some Remarks from a Polish Perspective
- Ökonomien der sozialen Medien – Bildpolitik und Gemeinschaftsbildung in den digitalen Netzwerken der Gegenwartskunst
- Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art
- Buchbesprechungen
- Skulptur um 1300 zwischen Köln und Paris
- Die Memoria der Herren von Lichtenberg in Neuweiler (Elsass). Adelphus-Teppiche, Hochgrab Ludwigs V. († 1471), Heiliges Grab (1478), Glasmalereien (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, Bd. 11)
- Pneumatology. An Inquiry into the Representation of Wind, Air and Breath
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Debatte: The Summer of Art 2017 (continuation)
- Courbet at documenta 14 – Charity and Other Alternative Economies
- Aufsätze
- “A very civil idea …” Art History, Transculturation, and World-Making – With and Beyond the Nation
- Themenschwerpunkt: Ökonomien Des Sozialen
- Einleitung: Der Marktwert der Kapitalismuskritik Ein Dilemma der Gegenwartskunst
- Wirksame Kunst. Spektakel als kritische Form und soziale Praxis
- Feeling and Form in Mark Bradford’s American Pavilion
- Für eine meta-ethische Wende. Anmerkungen zur neueren Verantwortungsästhetik
- Reworking Effectiveness: Art as a Politic of Redistribution – Some Remarks from a Polish Perspective
- Ökonomien der sozialen Medien – Bildpolitik und Gemeinschaftsbildung in den digitalen Netzwerken der Gegenwartskunst
- Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art
- Buchbesprechungen
- Skulptur um 1300 zwischen Köln und Paris
- Die Memoria der Herren von Lichtenberg in Neuweiler (Elsass). Adelphus-Teppiche, Hochgrab Ludwigs V. († 1471), Heiliges Grab (1478), Glasmalereien (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, Bd. 11)
- Pneumatology. An Inquiry into the Representation of Wind, Air and Breath
