MEDIATION IN TRADING ZONES: ART OR FREE FANTASY?
The article discusses the opinion of Artem Feigelman about the mediating role of artworks in trading zones from the viewpoint of T. Adorno's negative dialectics using the example of science art. The author accentuates the difference between artworks and fantasy. She touches upon the “eternal question” about the nature of art and argues that both art and fantasy can perform an intermediary function. The negative dialectics of T. Adorno and K. Popper’s the falsificationism are compared. The study discusses the difference between the interpretations of science art as an area of art or as an area of free imagination. Since the concepts of science and art are too elusive and eternally problematic, the article suggests narrowing the subject of discussion and considering only such elements of science and art as fantasy and cognition. This line seems more accessible for research into what can play the role of a mediator between science and society in the “non-Galison” trading zones.