Abstract
This essay posits tensions in art, education, and politics by using philosophical discourse to suggest that the way to create transformative events for social change is to understand Lyotard's diagnosis of the current age and Rancière's call to critical art practice. By proposing new strategies and tactics such as 'post-art' and 'strange tools', the author tries to demonstrate in the text the indirect approaches advocated by Lyotard and Rancière in tackling the current post-political world.
Highlights
A Note on the Notion of ‘Post,’ the Productivity of ‘Anti,’ & Performing a New ‘Critical’Post “A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern
Given the sun has apparently set on postmodernism, with those final rays of twilight having vanished not that long ago as we entered this third decade of the 21st century, questions must be asked: What has this dark night of post-postmodernism thrust upon us? What does this ‘post’ post era pontificate? How should we understand a notion of ‘post’ within a steady trickle of dispatched buzz words like post-politics, post-education, and post-art?
In connection to that work, we must pay attention in particular to his letter/essay from 1982: Résponse à la question: qu’est-ce que le postmoderne?, for it is in that letter that the opening quote is sourced above
Summary
A Note on the Notion of ‘Post,’ the Productivity of ‘Anti,’ & Performing a New ‘Critical’. While ‘post’ in a Lyotardian sense would be seeking a ‘before and after’ of politics to allow for a multiplicity of possibilities to emerge, for Žižek, post-politics seems to function more like an anti-politics that seeks to deny any way for politics to form in the first place. We find in the breaking of politics perhaps the ‘before and after’ Lyotard might have surmised, leading to post-politics and creating a differend This event ruptures the way post, anti, and critical can position politics for transformation and instead continually deny that capacity from the political. Conjecture: We are not taking seriously the nexus of anti/post-politics, and the development of strange tools within the milieu of post-art is continually delayed and unable to raddle reality into new trajectories
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