Der Weltgeist als Horror-Mystery-Sci-Fi-Thriller. Soziale Differenzierung und kapitalistische Totalität in Melanie Gilligans Video-Serie Popular Unrest (2010)
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This article examines the use of genre television in contemporary video art, focusing on Melanie Gilligan’s miniseries/video-installation Popular Unrest (2010). Genres, it is argued, provide an epistemic tool for a critical realism, as they ground video art’s form and content in social objectivity and its modes of differentiation. At a pivotal moment in the digital restructuring of television media, Gilligan’s work critically assesses the potentials and limits of such realism, putting the TV genre to the test of the horrors of capitalist totality – but also, conversely, testing the Marxist notion of totality against the social differentiation inherent to genres.
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Kapitalismus; Science-Fiction; Serialität; Videokunst; Soziale Differenzierung
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