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circulationism en · NOUN

Etymology

From circulation + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An emphasis on circulating goods as opposed to producing them.
    • 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. 2019, Brad Buckley, A Companion to Curation, page 407:
    • 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. 2018, Andrew McNamara, Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society:

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