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hasgrowntothestatusofdiscourse,openingthespaceof
freedomexploredbyarbitraryartisticchoices.
However,freedomandautonomyhavealsobroughtabout
someperturbingconsequences,almosttransparentforthe
audiences.Tebarrierssetbythetraditionalperception
oftheethicalorthemoralasinherentinarthavemelted
downallowingforharshdiagnoses.
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Inspiteofitsshrill
sonority,arthascomebeforetheabyssofsilencebecoming
the“pitilessart”ofPaulVirilio.
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Terealityofthe“outside”
worldhasoncemorebecomejustaninexhaustiblereservoir
ofresources,usedordisregardedatthewhimofanartist
rarelyburdenedwithanyconcernexceptthefinalartistic
vision.
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Art,despiteitsostensible“mixing”withreality,
breakingthroughallthebarriersofthepastandbeing
apparentlyembeddedinthelambencyoflife,infactnever
losesitsdistinctiveness,itsownnarration.JohnCage’s1952
composition4’33”,performedintheabsenceofdeliberate
sound,hasservedastheillustrationofthisdistinctiveness
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ArtemployingtheHeideggerianconceptofaletheia-the
concealedtruththatrequiresunconcealment,unearthing-hasbeen
fatedtotheindińerenceandanaesthetizationofasurgeon’sinstrument
cuttingintothebodyofourexistence(WalterBenjamin’sterm,p.534),
andbrutalizationofmeans(AndrzejZybertowicz,Poznanieiprzemoc:
stadiumznie-klasycznejflozofiwiedzy(Toruń:UniwersytetMikołaja
Kopernika,1995).Contemporarydebateseagerlyplacemodernismwith
itsvisionsoftransformationoftheworld,revolutionandrebirthat
thefoundationoffascistconcepts(Cf.RogerGrifn,Modernismand
Fascism.TeSenseofaBeginningunderMussoliniandHitler[London:
Palgrave,MacMillan,2007])developingmucholderstatements:
“Insteadofbeingbasedonritualitbeginstobebasedonanother
practice-politics.”WalterBenjamin,“TeWorkofArtintheAgeof
itsTechnicalReproductibility,”inArtandItsSignifcance,ed.Stephen
DavidRoss(Albany,NY:SUNYPress,1994),p.529.
9Cf.PaulVirilio,ArtandFear(Continuum:NewYork,2006).
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Freedominitsbestformshouldbefoundedasamomentof
constructionofone’sidentityinrelationtothecontextoftheworld.
Cf.MariaKorusiewicz,“Czypozwolićbytowibyć,czylizapiski
orytuałachwolnościwsztuce,”inRytuałycodzienności,eds.Anna
WęgrzyniakandTomaszStępień(Katowice:WydawnictwoWSZOP,
2008),p.72.
