circulationism

English

Etymology

From circulation +‎ -ism.

Noun

circulationism (uncountable)

1. (economics, art) An emphasis on circulating goods as opposed to producing them.
   • 2018, Andrew McNamara, Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society:

     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.

   • 2019, Brad Buckley, A Companion to Curation, page 407:

     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.

Related terms

• circulationist

Anagrams

• miscirculation