
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as “After the orgy”. The orgy in question was…
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Various reflections on “artistic” practice and life, or How not to be an artist? |
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If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as “After the orgy”. The orgy in question was… |
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Not-all artists are idiots! (Or, hell hath no fury…) |
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This statement sounds trite, or worse, mean-spirited. But if we consider the Lacanian concept of the idiot, we may not be able to dismiss… |
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A nutter essay (peership) |
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In Lacanian psychoanalysis, art is taken up as having something to teach psychoanalysis about the unconscious and the historical structures of discourse. Art becomes… |
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Clinique (of less compromise) |
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Prohibition has openly mutated to what both Freud and Lacan had revealed as its truth: a will to jouissance, a push to enjoy, to… |
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Trashitas |
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The more saints, the more laughter; that’s my principle, to wit, the way out of capitalist discourse—which will not constitute progress, if it happens… |
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All things being singular (Mad in craft) |
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I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft. –William Shakespeare, Hamlet This essay will take a closer look at what is an… |
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QOQQOON/A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum DocumentA Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document |
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QOQQOON/A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document Terry Smith: There are very few artists still practicing now whose work, however transformed, remains shaped—in its basic parameters, perhaps—by that moment in the… |
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QOQQOON/The Means of Discursive ProductionThe Means of Discursive Production |
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QOQQOON/The Means of Discursive Production The predominant mode of production in art after the rise of conceptualism can be understood as a process of discursive argumentation. This era has… |