Value Merit
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The discussion of the monetary value intrinsic in media sensate is trivial. The only merited value upon which media sensate should be measured is the cultural embrace of its recognizable self knowledge and the definition therein. The privileged space outside history is validated by the combined efforts of its initiates for quality of meaning not market. Those works which address distinctions of market value, function as objective transactions in the ritualistic rite of capitalist culture. Their place is outside of social history until they are transvalued as distinctions of experience in the testimony of cultural value. Definitions will always be cultic in form and ritual acts of culture needing to be deciphered by external participants.
Media sensate are the props in the socio-political theater of culture.
The expression of a market itself is not the image but the act. Market is expressed through transaction. Shifting and augmenting of value of these transaction markers serve only as secondary elements to exchange.
Examples of the crafters of props and theater in the capitalist polity under the ageis of an ‘art’ history:
Picasso
Duchamp
Warhol
Mark Kostabi
Jeff Koons
Damien Hirst
Takashi Murakami
( In comparison , Warhol’s syntax was a stylistic syntax taken from graphic culture. While Murakami takes a cultural syntax and iconizes the distrabution. )
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