Art and the Reconfiguration of Contemporary Experience

Abstract

For a long time philosophers have concerned themselves with the problems of definition in relation to art per se, but such debates have let us nowhere. What needs to be done is to clarify the symbolic structures of specific media, noting, in particular, the epistemic conditions of their legibility. This means a clarification of the possibility of effective communicative codes. By revealing the sometimes obscure or indirect epistemic conditions which sustain perception of art objects the philosopher enables these to henceforth act as an acknowledged and explicit convention of reading, opening in this way the possibility of new communicative codes in art.