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Drunk on Capitalism. An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Market Economy, Art and Science
(Eds.) Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Frederik Le Roy, Christel Stalpaert and Diederik Aerts
This reader is based on the input of two symposia: Science For Sale and Buy Buy Art (for more information and webvideo see ‘activities’)
This reader is part of the series Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society. Volume 11, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2082-4)
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Table of Content and Introduction: see pdf
This interdisciplinary collection of analyses discusses the impact of market economy on art and science in the post-Berlin Wall era. The first part, Science for Sale, focuses on the alliance of contemporary science and education with private funding, and how this contributes to the commodification of knowledge. The underlying questions are: Does economic power eclipse freedom of knowledge? When science and education become enterprises, what are the risks of selling off patented knowledge, of rhetorical abuse for business purposes or a commercialisation of symbolic capital? The second part, Buy Buy Art, elaborates on the multiple and ambiguous relations between art and money. Contemporary art claims to be autonomous. But art costs money and artists cannot live from their love of art alone. How do artists respond to the increase of economic conditions in our culture in general and the art market in particular? What is the value of a work of art now that it has also become an investment? Finally, what role is left for art in global, late-capitalist society?