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+ (presences of art)<br />

general vorbind, al filosofiei. Extenuat de atîtea ræzboaie, epuizat de atîtea<br />

præpæduri øi mizerii, omul din Apus s-a anesteziat în ciclonul inedit al<br />

consumismului øi a sfîrøit prin a abdica de la reperele etice impuse de concepflia<br />

clasicæ a progresului, ce implica educaflia moralæ, strædania minuflioasæ,<br />

un echilibru între funcflionalul tehnic, utilitarismul financiar øi comercial<br />

øi Frumosul ca valoare universalæ neutilitaræ.<br />

Democraflia de masæ contemporanæ, împlinitæ sub semnul societæflii de<br />

consum – ceea ce ventrilocii gîndirii liberale numesc sfîrøitul istoriei –, pune<br />

laolaltæ øi face sæ coincidæ etica socialæ cu cæutarea freneticæ a bunæstærii<br />

materiale imediate, în care calitatea devenirii oamenilor are ca mæsuræ gestionarea<br />

precaritæflii locurilor de muncæ, a împrumuturilor pentru nevoi<br />

domestice, a timpului liber anteprogramat. Estetica øi, în general, cultura<br />

au ajuns sæ fie obiect contabil pe o piaflæ giganticæ, ce funcflioneazæ de acum<br />

încolo sub imperiul plusvalorii øi al luptei permanente împotriva scæderii<br />

tendenfliale a ratei profitului. Triumf al informafliei-uniformizærii, ce se<br />

ilustreazæ ca nonexperienflæ a lumii, øi al publicitæflii, ca estetizare a mærfii.<br />

Præbuøire a utopiilor, sfîrøit al filosofiei, al avangardelor, toate pecetluiesc<br />

simultan victoria absolutæ a utilitarismului, în toate formele lui: al celui<br />

din øtiinflele sociale ca profilaxie øi ortopedie socialæ, economicæ øi politicæ;<br />

al celui privind dezvoltarea tehnicæ infinitæ ca împlinire øi perenitate a fericirii;<br />

al celui al limbii, sterilizatæ øi devenitæ simulacru de adevær al comunicærii.<br />

Lumea occidentalæ e prinsæ într-o agitaflie freneticæ, în ochiul unui ciclon<br />

mediatic øi spectacular ce scapæ tot mai mult controlului celor ce l-au provocat.<br />

Cît despre spectatori (majoritatea dintre noi), strigoi buimaci, fantome<br />

halucinante øi minfli abrutizate, ei se dedau befliei lucrurilor înmulflite, a imaginilor,<br />

sunetelor, zgomotelor electronice øi încearcæ sæ uite, în beløugul clipei<br />

de faflæ, ameninflarea unei precaritæfli implacabile, mereu de faflæ, ascunsæ<br />

în apropiere, øi totodatæ neputincioasæ în a trezi conøtiinflele amorflite<br />

de atîta cacofonie. Folosindu-ne care mai de care de soluflii cosmetice în<br />

încercarea de a depæøi condiflia noastræ limitatæ de muritori prin <strong>idea</strong>lul<br />

tinereflii veønice pe pæmînt, ne-am trezit, pentru prima oaræ în istoria Occidentului,<br />

confruntafli cu noi înøine, ca niøte sclavi îndopafli cu bunætæfli øi cu<br />

noutæfli de tot felul, mizînd totul pe o mizerie spiritualæ nemaiîntîlnitæ. Rætæcifli<br />

în mirajele metafizicii, negînd realul în folosul dublului sæu <strong>idea</strong>l, moøtenitorii<br />

tîrzii ai filosofiei epocii Luminilor uitæ sæ priveascæ modernitatea øi sæ-i<br />

asculte mesajul în esenfla lui tehnicæ øi mercantilæ, cu alte cuvinte, în generalizarea<br />

diviziunii muncii ca fundament al socialului øi al politicului øi, mai<br />

departe, al oricærei activitæfli umane, inclusiv arta, chiar dacæ aceasta nu-i<br />

decît expresia cea mai tragicæ sau mai derizorie a ei. Aceasta e întemeierea<br />

pe care o împlineøte arta modernitæflii tîrzii în expresia estetico-politicæ radicalæ<br />

a producfliei, vînzærii øi consumului.<br />

3. Artæ øi societate<br />

Nu existæ totuøi niciun mijloc de a salva nonutilitarismul artei? La drept vorbind,<br />

însæøi deriziunea ei nu ne poate scoate, oare, din mizeria spiritualæ?<br />

Øi nu pæstreazæ arta ultima frînturæ de mister omenesc, pe care secularizarea<br />

generalæ a lumii l-a fæcut sæ disparæ în folosul experienflei progresului,<br />

redusæ la lucrurile ce se pot mæsura în împrejurærile cotidiene cele mai<br />

triviale?<br />

Odatæ proclamatæ moartea lui Dumnezeu, artistului îi revenea obligaflia<br />

de temut de a aræta lumii prezenfla nonutilitarului ca ultimæ posibilitate a<br />

unei mîntuiri. Injoncfliunile, provocærile øi admonestærile avangardelor,<br />

immediate material welfare in which people’s becoming translates into the management<br />

of the precariousness of the jobs, of the domestic loans, of the spare<br />

time programmed in advance. Aesthetics and, generally speaking, culture<br />

became the object of accounting on a gigantic market working from now on<br />

according to surplus value and the permanent struggle against the tendency<br />

of the rate of profit to fall. It’s a triumph of in<strong>format</strong>ion-levelling, which reveals<br />

itself as a non-experience of the world, and of advertising, as an aesthetization<br />

of the goods. A collapse of utopias, end of philosophy, of avant-gardes, they all<br />

mark the simultaneous (and absolute) victory of utilitarianism, in its every form:<br />

that of social sciences as prophylaxis and social, economical and political orthopaedics,<br />

that of the infinite technical development as accomplishment and<br />

precariousness of happiness, that of language, sterilized and turned into a simulacrum<br />

of truth of communication. Western world is caught up in a frantic effervescence,<br />

into the eye of a media storm which escapes ever more the control<br />

of those who caused it. As for the spectators, (most of us), giddy ghosts, hallucinatory<br />

phantoms and imbruted minds, they indulge in the exhilaration of multiplied<br />

things, of electronic images, sounds and noises and try to forget, in the<br />

abundance of the moment, the threat of an implacable precariousness, always<br />

present, hidden and at the same time incapable of awaking the consciences<br />

benumbed by so much cacophony. By using all kinds of cosmetic solutions in trying<br />

to overcome our limited mortal condition through the <strong>idea</strong>l of the everlasting<br />

youth on earth, we found ourselves, for the first time in the history of the<br />

West, confronting ourselves, like slaves force-fed with goodies and novelties of<br />

all sorts, on the brink of an unprecedented spiritual misery. Lost in the mirage<br />

of metaphysics, denying reality in favour of its <strong>idea</strong>l double, the late inheritors<br />

of the philosophy of the Enlightenment fail to look at modernity and to listen to<br />

its message in its technical and mercantile essence, in other words, as generalisation<br />

of labour as foundation of the social and politic domain and further on<br />

of any human activity including art, even though it is only its tragic or risible<br />

expression. It is exactly this establishment that late modern art brings forth, as<br />

a radical aesthetical-political expression of production, selling and consumption.<br />

3. Art and Society<br />

Is there any way to save the non-utilitarianism of art? As a matter of fact, is it<br />

not possible for the very risible character of it to bail us out of the spiritual misery?<br />

And does art not retain the last piece of human mystery, which the overall<br />

secularisation of the world made to disappear in favour of the experience of the<br />

progress, reduced to the things which may be measured in the most trivial quotidian<br />

situations?<br />

Once the death of God was proclaimed, it was the artist’s fearful obligation<br />

to show the world that the presence of non-utilitarianism is the last chance of<br />

redemption. The injunctions, the challenges and the admonitions of the avantgardes,<br />

the premonitory images signalling great catastrophes, their fury against<br />

the establishment of a generalised conformism, peculiar to a society living in<br />

abundance, forebode the victory of the “absolute vacuum” without avoiding the<br />

traps of the barbaric mercantilism. I remember the Good Friday in 1989 when,<br />

on my return from Beaubourg, I passed by the Saint Merry church where the<br />

Crossway Mess was being celebrated. I entered out of curiosity and I saw how<br />

empty the house of the Lord was. Only a few tourists and local senior citizens<br />

were listening to the priest chanting his litanies, one by one. Tens of metres<br />

away, hundreds of people were queuing to enter the temple of modern art.<br />

A sign of our times! What else could they have done?<br />

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