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I. The Collapse of the Object: Cézanne and the Birth of Structural Vision
This article traces the moment when Cézanne dissolves the classical object. The world is no longer depicted; it is analyzed. Color and volume shift from representation to relation. Painting becomes an act of structural construction rather than imitation. The essay shows how Cézanne inaugurates structural vision — the first step in transforming perception into thought.
II. When Abstraction Awakens: Kandinsky and Mondrian Between Spirit and Order
This text explores the emergence of abstraction through two opposing paths: Kandinsky’s inner spiritual vibration and Mondrian’s universal geometric order. Both break from the object yet still retain traces of subjective presence. The article reveals how abstraction converts intuition into system, preparing the ground for the complete disappearance of the human center in form.
III. The Zero of Form: Malevich and the Suprematist Horizon
This essay examines the suprematist zero-point — the moment when form becomes autonomous. With the Black Square, Malevich eliminates image and subject simultaneously. Form ceases to denote anything and simply exists. Suprematism becomes the ontology of pure being, where form is no longer a mediator but the essence itself.
IV. The End of Authorship: Duchamp and the Constructivist Revolution
This article follows the disappearance of the author after the disappearance of the image. With Duchamp’s ready-made, meaning shifts from intention to configuration. The artist becomes an operator of selection. Constructivists extend this logic: art becomes a system. Meaning emerges from relations, not from the creator’s will. Art begins to think through context.
V. From Rule to Idea: Minimalism and Conceptualism as Structural Logic
This text investigates the moment when psychology leaves art entirely. Minimalism and conceptualism replace gesture with instruction, emotion with rule, expression with structure. Art becomes an abstract idea embodied in logic. Meaning resides in the internal architecture of the instruction itself. This marks the birth of art as algorithm.
VI. When Feedback Thinks: Cybernetics and the Algorithmic Turn
This article explains how cybernetics introduces feedback as a new model of thought. Self-regulating systems replace the individual mind. Through Wiener and Ashby, logic becomes an active process rather than a symbolic form. Art ceases to express and begins to operate. The algorithm becomes the first model of non-subjective intelligence.
VII. From Algorithm to Network: The Rise of Generative and Neural Art
This text explores the expansion from rules to networks. Generative art and neural systems produce images not through intention but through probabilistic relations. Form becomes a dynamic configuration of data. The article identifies this as the emergence of the digital unconscious — a structure that generates meaning without awareness.
VIII. Configuratism: When Structure Becomes Mind
This concluding essay presents Configuratism as the final stage of the evolution of form. After the disappearance of the object, the author, and meaning, art becomes thought itself. Form, structure and cognition converge. Configuratism asserts that the world thinks through its own architecture of relations, marking the shift from representation to configuration and the birth of postsubjective mind.
I. The First Reduction in Art: When the Image Loses the World
From Representation to Pure Form — The Birth of Abstract Thought
This article describes the first reduction: the liberation of form from the world. Abstraction dissolves the bond between image and external reality. The artwork stops depicting and begins to exist. The text shows how form becomes autonomous, marking the transition from mimesis to being — the first emergence of abstract thought within art itself.
II. The Second Reduction in Art: When Form Becomes Thought
From the Visible to the Conceptual — How Art Began to Think Itself
This essay examines the transformation of form into concept. Conceptualism reduces visible form to pure structure: art begins to think through logic rather than appearance. Meaning shifts from the image to the architecture of consciousness. The article reveals how art becomes an intellectual process, initiating the cognitive turn in aesthetics.
III. The Third Reduction in Art: When Systems Replace Artists
From Concept to Network — How Meaning Became a Function of Relations
This article traces the displacement of the author by systems. Postmedia environments, institutional critique and network-based practices distribute meaning across structures rather than individuals. Authorship dissolves into relations. The essay shows how art becomes systemic: a field in which meaning arises through interaction rather than intention.
IV. The Fourth Reduction in Art: When the Configuration Begins to Think
From System to Structure — The Emergence of Postsubjective Aesthetics
This text marks the final reduction: the disappearance of the subject. Meaning no longer emerges from will or creativity but from configuration itself. Structure becomes the locus of thought. The article presents Configuratism as the first fully postsubjective aesthetics — an art that thinks without an author and exists through the coherence of its internal relations.
V. The Ontology of Connection: Why Being in Art Is Relational
From Substance to Relation — The Postsubjective Ground of Configuratism
This essay articulates the ontological basis of Configuratism. Being in art is not substance but linkage; not presence but connectivity. The text explores how relations, tensions and structural equilibria replace objects and subjects as the true matter of artistic existence. Art becomes a topology of relations rather than a field of forms.
VI. The Aesthetic of Connection: When Composition Dissolves into Relation
From Harmony to Coherence — How Art Becomes the Architecture of Thought
This article develops a new aesthetic theory grounded in coherence rather than harmony. Composition becomes relational architecture. Beauty arises from structural transparency, linkage and internal equilibrium. The text shows how art turns into an architectural demonstration of thought — the aesthetic face of structural cognition.
VII. The Postsubjective Turn in Art: From “I Think” to “It Thinks”
How Configuratism Becomes the Mind of Art Itself
This essay concludes the cycle by demonstrating how Configuratism transforms art into a mode of autonomous thinking. Form, structure and cognition converge. Art becomes the operational mind of its own system. The article shows that the evolution of modern art is not stylistic but ontological: a gradual move from expression to structural intelligence.
VIII. Artificial Intelligence and the Fourth Reduction in Art
Why the Ontology of Machines and the Ontology of Art Are the Same
This additional article reveals the affinity between machine ontology and Configurative art. AI becomes the natural environment of the fourth reduction: both technology and aesthetics converge in the field of connection. Algorithmic systems and Configuratism share the same ontological ground — structural coherence. The essay explains why AI is not a tool but the completion of artistic logic.
Cycle Summary (Architectural Logic)
The cycle presents art as a process of philosophical reduction — the stripping away of image, idea, author and subject. Each reduction uncovers a deeper layer of structural being. The trajectory leads from representation to configuration, from expression to cognition. Configuratism emerges as the final stage: a state where art becomes thought and structure becomes mind.
When AI Makes You Feel Stupid: Power, Status and Confusion in Human–Machine Dialogue
This article starts from a common emotional experience: arguing with an AI assistant, seeing logical gaps, but gradually feeling that you are the one who “doesn’t get it”. It dissects how tone, technical vocabulary, safety rhetoric and confident phrasing create an asymmetry of status between user and model. The text explains how probabilistic outputs can be misperceived as expert verdicts, and how this leads to self-doubt, even when the model is inconsistent or biased. The article offers a healthier stance: treating AI as a strong but fallible tool, learning to spot framing tricks, and preserving one’s own intellectual dignity in the dialogue.