关键词: 维利里奥, 艺术的事故, 无情的艺术, 后人类

Abstract:

Virilio employed his original “accidentology” to critique 20th century Western art, arguing that violent events such as world wars were essential to understanding avant-garde movements like Surrealism and Dadaism. He noted that the romantic, euphoric art-making had vanished from Europe. The non-humanitarian perspective and disregard for the human body evident in these genres intensified in post-World War Ⅱ Western art. Artists not only explicitly portrayed bodily harm in their creations but also extensively incorporated gene editing, bionic technology, body transplantation, and other cyborg technologies. By openly aligning with emerging science and technology, “post-human art” dismantled the principle of representation in the plastic arts. Ultimately, through real-time technological prostheses such as live television, contemporary art practices infused with non-humanitarian elements became a form of “total accident” broadcasted globally, while the new “logistics of perception” undermined the subject’s capacity for empathy.

Key words: Paul Virilio, Accident of Art, Pitiless Art, Post-Human