Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2009
Abstract
In connection with the theory of totalitarian ‘biopolitization’ as a radical transformation of politics in the closed sphere of ‘denuded existence’ and ‘bare life’ as formulated by Giorgio Agamben), the author discusses one of the main aspects of 1950s Czech surrealism (particularly in the work of Mikuláš Medek, Vladimíra Boudník and Jiřího Kolář): the devaluation of humanity, of the human subject and of the human body as forms of expression and manifestations of human subjectivity and their reduction to a socio-ethical, religious and aesthetic ‘null’ value.