«museification» of the political community in Boris Groys:: Iconoclasm, aesthetic technology of care and critique of neoliberalism
La «museificación» de la comunidad política en Boris Groys: Iconoclastia, tecnología estética del cuidado y crítica del neoliberalismo
Author
Rivera García, Antonio
Abstract
Groys' aesthetic thought encourages the approach of the critique of neoliberalism from a point of view that is alien to the modern question of the subject. As opposed to the hegemony of the neoliberal subject identified with the entrepreneur of the self from a Foucauldian perspective, Groys shows that the iconoclasm followed by avant-garde art and museums offers an alternative: the conception of the individual as a "work of art", that is to say, as a dysfunctionalised "object", valuable in itself or independent of their job and social function. This alternative is completed with the retrieval of the main proposal of cosmist thought: the transformation of museum technology into biopolitics so that the individual of our time becomes an object of permanent care. Finally, the power and limits of the aesthetic-political metaphor of "museification" is analysed in order to think of an effective democratic alternative to neoliberalism. El pensamiento de Groys permite abordar la crítica del neoliberalismo desde una perspectiva ajena a la cuestión moderna del sujeto. El filósofo propone como alternativa a la subjetividad neoliberal: la concepción del individuo como una desfuncionalizada obra de arte. Esta alternativa se completa con la recuperación de la principal propuesta del pensamiento cosmista: la transformación de la tecnología museística en biopolítica, para que el individuo de nuestro tiempo sea objeto de permanentes cuidados. Finalmente, se analizan la potencia y límites de la «museificación» para pensar en una eficaz alternativa democrática al neoliberalismo.