TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ristić, Marko
AU  - Vesnić, Snežana
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1367
AB  - This paper aims at hypothesizing that the issue of technology could never be con sidered separate from the creative act. We develop the hypothesis starting from Heidegger’s 
opposition of technology and the poietic, which we interpret through the dialectic between the 
performative and constative function of the hand. To overcome the Heideggerian problem of 
Enframing, we introduce the question of singularity inherent in every poietic activity which, 
however, does not result in conceiving technology as an instrument. When defining the nature 
of such poietic singularization we employ Spinoza’s concept of an inadequate idea – an idea 
that involves its cause but does not explain it. The inherent negativity of the inadequate idea 
generates the sphere in which the new appears as radical otherness. But in order to produce the 
new, that is, to perform it, technology has to be conceptualized and thus made an instrument 
– a singular instrument of the creative act.
PB  - Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
T2  - AM Journal of Art and Media Studies
T1  - The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality
IS  - 29
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
DO  - 10.25038/am.v0i29.536
ER  - 

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author = "Ristić, Marko and Vesnić, Snežana",
year = "2022",
abstract = "This paper aims at hypothesizing that the issue of technology could never be con sidered separate from the creative act. We develop the hypothesis starting from Heidegger’s 
opposition of technology and the poietic, which we interpret through the dialectic between the 
performative and constative function of the hand. To overcome the Heideggerian problem of 
Enframing, we introduce the question of singularity inherent in every poietic activity which, 
however, does not result in conceiving technology as an instrument. When defining the nature 
of such poietic singularization we employ Spinoza’s concept of an inadequate idea – an idea 
that involves its cause but does not explain it. The inherent negativity of the inadequate idea 
generates the sphere in which the new appears as radical otherness. But in order to produce the 
new, that is, to perform it, technology has to be conceptualized and thus made an instrument 
– a singular instrument of the creative act.",
publisher = "Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade",
journal = "AM Journal of Art and Media Studies",
title = "The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality",
number = "29",
pages = "1-11",
doi = "10.25038/am.v0i29.536"
}

Ristić, M.,& Vesnić, S.. (2022). The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality. in AM Journal of Art and Media Studies
Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade.(29), 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i29.536

Ristić M, Vesnić S. The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality. in AM Journal of Art and Media Studies. 2022;(29):1-11.
doi:10.25038/am.v0i29.536 .

Ristić, Marko, Vesnić, Snežana, "The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality" in AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 29 (2022):1-11,
https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i29.536 . .