circulationism
English edit
Etymology edit
circulation + -ism
Noun edit
circulationism (uncountable)
- (economics, art) An emphasis on circulating goods as opposed to producing them.
- 2018, Andrew McNamara, Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society:
- In such a situation, Steyerl advocates, echoing Benjamin, an updated form of critical-cultural barbarism in the guise of a strategy of 'circulationism' – an emphasis on 'postproducing, launching, and accelerating' an image.
- 2019, Brad Buckley, A Companion to Curation, page 407:
- Here, for Steyerl, “circulationism” is an appropriate descriptor: What the Soviet avant‐garde of the twentieth century called productivism – the claim that art should enter production and the factory – could now be replaced by circulationism.