Art form shifts with the conception of the individual each age produces

Evidence

The absolute totality restricts itself as necessity in each of its spheres, produces itself out of them as a totality, and recapitulates there the preceding spheres just as it anticipates the succeeding ones. But one of these is the greater power… . It is necessary for individuality to advance through metamorphoses, and for all that belongs to the dominant stage to weaken and die, so that all stages of necessity appear as such stages in this individuality; but the misfortune of this period of transition (i.e. that this strengthening of the new formation has not yet cleansed itself absolutely of the past) is where the positive resides. And although nature, within a specific form, advances with a uniform (not mechanically uniform but uniformly accelerated) movement, it still enjoys a new form which it acquires. As nature enters that form, so it remains in it, just as a shell starts suddenly towards its zenith and then rests for a moment in it; metal when heated does not turn soft like wax, but all at once becomes liquid and remains so - for this phenomenon is the transition into the absolute opposite and so is infi- nite, and this emergence of the opposite out of infinity or out of its nothingness is a leap (ein Sprung). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1311 (#expands, via linked claim)

The crisis in historicity now dictates a return, in a new way, to the question of temporal organization in general in the postmodern force field, and indeed, to the problem of the form that time, temporality, and the syntagmatic will be able to take in a culture increasingly dominated by space and spatial logic. If, indeed, the subject has lost its capacity actively to extend its protensions and re-tensions across the temporal manifold and to organize its past and future into coherent experience, it becomes difficult enough to see how the cultural productions of such a subject could result in anything but “heaps of fragments” and in a practice of the randomly heterogeneous and fragmentary and the aleatory. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individuality advances through metamorphoses where new formation still carries the past — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1311; Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95; Objectivity in art requires building forms from the self rather than borrowing them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 280

Broader Connections

• Individuality advances through metamorphoses where new formation still carries the past #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1311
• Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms. #exemplifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95