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Utopia of Convergence Art in the Hybrid Age : focusing on Bruno Latour's Cosmopolitics Concept
The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
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This paper focuses on introducing cosmopolitics concept as the ideal of convergence art in the hybrid age. According to Bruno Latour, the dichotomous reasoning that distinguishes between subject and object, nature and society, humanity and non-humanity is the thinking system centered on human beings, based on which western-centered asymmetrical cultural anthropology has been developed, without covering many actors other than human beings. The notion of non-modernity, chosen by Latour calls for Dingpolitik, cosmopolitics, as a network of actors whoes existences equally participate as objects. Cosmopolitics is a concept of parliamentary politics of things in the network of actors. The concept of non-modernity proposed by Latour is a practical epistemology that aims to realize cosmopolitics in which all are participating as equal objects both human and non-human in the direction of ecologicalization of life. In contemporary convergence arts, we can experience metaphors of Dingpolitik as cosmopolitics. Such experience is visualized through bricollage used in convergence arts as a means of opening the doors of Dingpolitik. In the example of contemporary convergence arts, we can see that the field of Dingpolitik is metaphorically formed through the aesthetics of bricolage. In conclusion, the utopia of convergence art in the hybrid age calls for the concept of cosmopolitics that constitutes a network of ecologically symbiotic human beings and non-human beings.
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