| Sumario: | The debates on objectness, space-constitution, and the totalizing affects of works of art and design, once triggered by minimalism with its pronounced focus on pure objectness and the medium as the message, have mainly taken place in "marginal" or interdisciplinary fields, such as ethics in design and architecture, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and art, gender, cultural, and media theory. In contrast to aesthetics, which has come to challenge its own raison d'être, the controversies on post-(art) theory, post-aesthetics, anti-aesthetics, new-aestheticism, and academic ethics, seem to be less forceful in taking on the challenge of a reified and totalizing world staring back at man, despite the adoption of new approaches, such as linguistic, anthropological, and psychoanalytic, epistemological, and performativity. This paper will address questions, such as what transcends and disrupts these totalizing effects? Are there any moral limits to what could be created or to what one should be exposed to, or are these questions themselves liminal, because they presume a particular point of measurement, that is, a historical Mass? Moreover, links to subjectivity and identity construction will be shown.
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