The Cult of the New and the Work of Critique

This paper complicates 'the cult of the new', which has replaced art’s auratic tradition in modernity, drawing on the work of Baudelaire, Valéry, Adorno and Benjamin and argues for a kind of criticism that introduces a reflexive and politically inflected notion of ‘novelty’. Such a qualified notion...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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