The paper addresses the post-capitalist state of art and its main actors. An important role in the article is assigned to a return to the anthropological issues of post-anthropocentric art. In today's post-capitalist society, the role of art is being fundamentally transformed. There is now a different understanding of the very essence of what is commonly regarded as art, the work of the artist, and seen as an act of art. The aim of this article is to reactualise the impact of national research in the context of current trends in the aesthetic theory and to substantiate the perspective of this impact. In a situation where art is already thought of beyond the production of "creations" and beyond the professional work of the artist as a person who has specific craft skills. This article intends to clarify the relationship between perception and labor in the context of the artist's work and to substantiate the relationship between non-productive art and perceptive labor. In contemporary art theory, following the affective turn, the work of aesthetics is seen as being external to the original anthropologisation and psychologisation of aesthetic processes. It is important to demonstrate the specific impact of the representatives of the "productivist art" in overcoming the fetishisation of art. An important point of the article is that art is seen as a resource for overcoming alienated labor and the decapitalization of sensuality. The researchers return to the connection between art and labor on a new level. We show that, within the capitalist matrix, art only partially overcomes labor's alienation, while creative labor itself becomes alienated. The authors suggest that the next step is to turn attention to the Soviet tradition of the sociology of art, in particular, the productivist art and the Soviet organizational ideas of the 1920s. In the works of Boris Arvatov and Alexei Gastev, we see ways of making sense of the decapitalization of sensuality through the conscious construction and framing of the social, where the artist becomes the engineer of life, where labor becomes life, and the individual remains human.