Exploring the crisis of subjectivity through the interplay between feminist ideology and historical consciousness in ‘postsocialist art history’, or the emergence of the Millennial art historian from the contradiction between the autonomization and privatization of culture
Journal: Artelogie
Year: 2024

Consciousness-raising – positioned as the epitome of feminist method and its end goal – narrows feminist historical consciousness to an individual or group identity and overlooks the question of ideological formation: this is one of the markers of the crisis of subjectivity in feminist theory, as this essay suggests. The essay reveals the critical role of, and historicizes, feminist ideology in the Anglophone feminist critique of feminist cultural production evolving since the late 2000s in “pos