Postidentity And The Aesthetics Of Affect In The Work Of Tanja Ostojić
Postidentity And The Aesthetics Of Affect In The Work Of Tanja Ostojić

Summary/Abstract: This paper was initiated by referring to the problematic position identity has in today’s culture. As argued the complicated and often paradoxical situations that come out of the push and pull of the so-called identity politics are based on identitarian thinking which cannot go beyond subject/object relationships and the creation of innate Selfhood. The work of Gilles Deleuze points towards possible thinking outside identitarian conundrum by offering a way of thinking otherwise about being in the world. Being in the world as proposed by Deleuze is not one limited by so-called discrete identities, but marked by constant state of flux which actually more aptly describes our everyday relationships and negotiation of the Self. Connecting Deleuze’s philosophy to aesthetics leads to an inevitable understanding of art as an invaluable form of critique of identitatian politics precisely because of art’s ability to engage its surroundings on the level of the affective, subconscious forces. Finally, the positioning of art in the social and the political sphere needs to be reexamined and the works which enact the breaking of identity politics need to be more fully examined.

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