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positively think of a possibility which is essentially independent of the correlation, since this is precisely the possibility of the non-being of the correlation”. ( 7 ) The working theory on this principle of thinkability appears below, in the possibility of assessing works of art from a different point of view. Starting out from artefacts, Art Criticism 2.0 intends to reread the history of art by means of a topology that, through critical and poetic discourse, can lead to new hypotheses about art, which might be referred to as “non-Euclidean”. Works of art are particular physiognomic elements that are typical of their age, and are thus unrepeatable, and yet they refer back to a common systematics which, in its independence from the subject, can clarify aspects linked to the “ancestral” eternity of the world of forms. This systematics is the outcome of the theoretical acceptance of non-Euclidean geometries. If worked out consistently, this working hypothesis should


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