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No Culture No Europe

Arts in Society Groningen University

Culture?

• ‘Way of life’
• Giving meaning to human existence in society

– Socialization (enculturation) – Qualification – Subjectification

• Cultural sector?

– Social-cultural, heritage, (amateur) arts – Reflective design of ‘living together’ – Measure and dismeasure of culture (dialectical)

Value?

Five themes:

• Cognitive effects, but…
• Health
• Experiential value
• Economic effects, but…
• Social effects, but…

What happens with ‘value’ in evidence based policy?

• Empirical research: causality-doxa

=> Event: limited in time  habits, conservation,… (clock time  embedded time) => Isolation of an event => de-contextualizing culture (to measure  to experience) => value becomes function (systemic) (Boomkens: ‘Sex is reduced to reproduction’) => survey/interview: reduction of values to cognitive/(self-)reflexive competences

• To measure is not to know

To measure is to give sense in a specific way = culture – producing a culture

• No evidence for evidence based research
• WE NEED TO STUDY CULTURE AS A SENSEMAKING PROCESS

The meaning of culture?

crisis Social & Economical inequality

GDP = GHP

MISSING LINK?

CULTURE

Art

The Idea of ‘Commonism’

• Economy = substructure:

Communism & Neoliberalism

• Beyond Rhineland & Neoliberalism
• No society without culture (reservoir)
• Dissent (agonistic – Mouffe)
• Commons defines the

dynamics of culture

• Culture feeds dissent

through processes

• f subjectification