ART IS NOT ONLY SUBJECT TO RULES, MUST NOT ONLY OBEY LAWS, BUT IS ITSELF LEGISLATION. ONLY AS LEGISLATION IS IT TRULY ART. WHAT IS INEXHAUSTABLE, WHAT IS TO BE CREATED, IS THE LAW. MH on FN

THE ARTWORK

fundamental propositions:

  1. modernity is the becoming immanent of the artwork

  2. becoming immanent means the absorption of a transcendent measure of value within the work

  3. this movement can be traced in the work of Mallarmé, specifically and explicitly in his poem Herodiade (cf. ch.2 here)

  4. this movement coordinates with the the theme of the ‘death of god’ in Nietzsche’s thought (see more here)

  5. immanence is autonomy