If it somehow proved possible today to recreate such a \u2013 and it sounds almost like Martin Buber! \u2013 dialogical aesthetic potential, it would indeed mean breaking through immanence, akin to a reactivation of a concrete utopia. It is only through dialogue \u2013 and not through fetishized forms of so-called communication \u2013 that the aesthetic as a collective experience can be regained. And, by the way, Benjamin had envisioned something similar \u2013 a messianic cosmology if we may call it that \u2013 at the conclusion of his One Way Street from 1928, the aphorism entitled \u201cTo the Planetarium\u201d. \u2013 For now though, the aesthetic as unregimented experience remains individual, and as an individual experience of the aesthetic bound in turn to the artwork. But the days of a work aesthetics are long numbered, current art, i.e. contemporary art, is an art after art\/post-art art. If it manages to open new perspectives on the possibility of a liberated society, then only sporadically and individually. And under the given social conditions it is not communicable dialogically, neither politically nor aesthetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"