O MASOVNOME UBOJSTVU KAO VIDU LIJEPE UMJETNOSTI. Posthumanizam i estetika uzvišenoga
ON MASS MURDER AS AN ASPECT OF FINE ART. Posthumanism and the aesthetics of the sublime

Summary/Abstract: Lyotard’s reinterpretation of Kant’s aesthetic of the sublime as a strategy which effectively prevails the self-purposefulness of modern forms provokes us more than ever. How to name the nameless concurrently becomes a password and an obsession for the postmodern epoch. It is necessary to find a connection between the principal indifference of recent artistic practices and all the more devastating transgressions into the realm of reality which presents itself as a sublime strategy. This paper is dedicated to a comparison and analysis of separate means of artistic representation of practices and motives that possess the collective, and therefore, sublime interest. From the polemics and satires of Swift, through De Quincey’s irony, to treatises, manifestoes, proclamations and live streams of today’s mass murderers, this paper problematizes how the demiurgic charge of modernism dissipates itself in numerous formal distances built-up against the world and the sumless subjectivist interventions upon the world.

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