Usological Turn by dpe.tools published on 2020-09-02T15:02:35Z In the field of aesthetics, ‘usership’ stands in opposition with speactorship. In particular, with the rise of 2.0 culture, and especially social media, users become producers of value and information, specifically in relation to content generation. What would TikTok look like without user-generated content? Similarly, according to the usological turn (Wright), art practitioners are more and more dissatisfied with artworks just to look at in awe, hence they tend to create works which situate themselves as part of a broader usership in producing them. Simplifying, the usological turn sees a rise of practices that welcome use, misuse, transformation, and repurpose challenging the old regime of ownership, authorship, spectatorship and intellectual property rights as well. USOLOGICAL TURN is read by Alessandra Saviotti More references about the term: + Yīldīz, O. and Kokadere, N. (2018)The Usological Turn: An interview with Stephen Wright. SALT blog [online]. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/yxkjnuvl Genre Learning
