politics must transform into a category capable of making the move beyond its previous neoliberal dominion, art has a renewed mandate to engender a new political imaginary. This, I claim, it does not through an opening up but by the procedure of non-dialectical resistance to thought, hence not the production of undecidability, but the instauration of affects. Art would then rest in the double position of addressed and unaddressed expression. Whereas, under Duchamp, this unaddressed expression would be the realm for the subjectivisation of the viewer, according to me, this realm of the art is the expression precisely of an ecological thought that is able to engender a radical new politics of interdependence and commonality that butchers the prioritised space of subjectivity. Art beyond the contemporary understands itself as capable of a politics beyond the limited ambition of the production of a free liberal subject, towards affective, powerful and intertwined objects that produce the common through an institution of affects and as such, a site for new politics to emerge. A version of this paper was given at the Beyond Representation conference at South Bank University in May 2012
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