TEHNIKA KAO BIT UMJETNOSTI
TECHNOLOGY AS THE ESSENCE OF ART

Summary/Abstract: This work deals with Axelos's comprehension of Marx's notion of art through the prism of technology as an essential part in Axelos. Axelos holds art as a part of superstructure pertaining to spirit; it is a dependent form and therefore alienated. Axelos did not point out at all Marx's distinction between alienated work as an abstract manifestation of human nature and free activities. As the overall production appears as techne, so art appears as technology. Even though art does not have its own independent world and is enclosed in a production-consumption circle, and so the artistic act is also alienated work, one can still take artistic act in Marx as a measure of human. To Marx, art is the intensity and fullness of life, just like freedom is. Axelos, relating to Marx as to a thinker of technology and not a thinker of history, takes a view that art looses its essence in favour of technology, and its essence is poiesis. What is essential in Axelos is the notion of Game as the essential for understanding art.

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