The Biconditionality of Art‐Politics

Abstract

It is high time to correct the falsehood that art is a luxury. The fact of the matter is that art is actually a necessity without which politics are remarkably empoverished. It is all the more urgent to correct that falsehood in our current era owing to the pressures of globalization. Art is not distinct from life at large because art is life at our mirroring-minds. As such, it is not separate from politics. Both politics and art are about designing how we live. Figuring out problems and implementing response policies constitutes the most fundamental activities of that design. Both art and politics are the processes through which we humans shape life. Indeed, this is exactly the commonality where art and politics meet. However, the reason why politics all around the world has become lowly and insensitive to the demands of the citizens, and the reason why politics remains helplessly uncreative in solving local, national, regional and global problems is the contemporary absence of aesthetics in our societies.