Working the contemporary: history as a project of crisis, today

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    Abstract

    What might it mean to ‟work” the concept of the contemporary, under current conditions, in the sense of Georges Canguilhem‘s famous account of ‟working a concept”? The contemporary, it is argued, has been ‟worked” by history itself into a global form. Two aspects in particular will be stressed: its immanent relationship to the temporality of crisis, and a renewed sense of history itself as a ‟project of crisis” (Tafuri), a putting into crisis, or a production of the present as crisis. History as project, it is suggested, is the negativity of the unity of global crisis. How might this sound?
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFutures of the contemporary
    Subtitle of host publicationcontemporaneity, untimeliness and artistic research
    EditorsPaulo de Assis, Michael Schwab
    Place of PublicationLeuven, Belgium
    PublisherLeuven University Press
    Pages135-146
    ISBN (Print)9789462701830
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2019

    Publication series

    NameOrpheus Institute Series
    PublisherLeuven University Press

    Keywords

    • Art and design

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