Sentences with phrase «institutional culture now»

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This term, now a numinous one, denotes what Michel Foucault would call a discursive formation or practice, an activity, that is, for which there is a definite institutional and theoretical place in the culture, an activity that now has a fairly lengthy history and that has produced its own bureaucratic organizations, organs of publication, and professional experts.

Art as a fully engaged institutional critique, capable of extending its frame of reference directly into the political sphere is, if not a purely historical phenomenon, then one that is now associated, almost exclusively, with contexts outside Western centers of culture and commerce.

The now - old story of the infinitely capacious co-optation of aesthetic subversion by the culture industry has been similarly updated, as the strategically deployed pessimism of institutional critique is absorbed into the alterna - worlds of individual agency.