Another way of thinking this change in approach to art is as a move towards a more machinic understanding, one in which we are less involved in questions of definition and more with notions of function. We no longer ask the interminable question: ‘what does art, what does this art work, mean’? But rather, what does art, what does this art work, do? Or, again, following Lyotard, what does this art work set in motion?