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- uncountableartAn emphasis on circulating goods as opposed to producing them.
In such a situation, Steyerl advocates, echoing Benjamin, an updated form of critical-cultural barbarism in the guise of a strategy of 'circulationism' – an emphasis on 'postproducing, launching, and accelerating' an image.
2018, Andrew McNamara, Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society1 more example
Here, for Steyerl, “circulationism” is an appropriate descriptor: What the Soviet avant‐garde of the twentieth century called productivism – the claim that art should enter production and the factory – could now be replaced by circulationism.
2019, Brad Buckley, A Companion to Curation, page 407
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circulationism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circulationism
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