THE AGE OF THE MEDIALISED WORLD:THE TRANSPARENCY OF ART , RADICAL INVENTION AND TERRORISM

Abstract

This work is thematically focused on the problem of the transparency of art in the age of the medialised world: where decadence is realized in a way of terrorism as an act of the radical invention. Retrospectively, it is developed through the composite reinterpretation of Heidegger’s thought on the age of the world picture, Baudrillard’s understanding of the phenomenon of transparency, simulation, trans-aesthetic and trans-political, and Nietzsche’s overturn of platonism as an act of the completion of the traditional metaphysics. The essential characteristics of our epoch, thus, will disclose itself as a manifestation of desire for the creative act of revaluation which has imploded in the condition of passive nihilism. This condition, reflectively, appears as a (post)metaphysical desire for an End within the experience of impossibility of the new Beginning. The post-metaphysical era is then an age of the metaphysical nostalgia after art, the age of its transparency, and so, the medium of terrorism as the phenomenon of a radical invention. This is why it has become unavoidable to question again the relation between metaphysics and aesthetics, reality and art, time and Dasein, to question the relation between philosophy, world and Life. Such questioning, finding itself grounded in the hermeneutics of Being, emerges as this one which can be important for the history of uncompleted creativity.