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Liquidation world : on the art of living absently / Alexi Kukuljevic.
Author
Kukuljevic, Alexi
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description
xii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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BD222 .K85 2017
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Subjectivity
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Art and philosophy
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Short circuits
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In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves by a paradoxical disidentification--through the objects that take their places. They have mastered the art of living absently, of making something with nothing. Traversing their own morbid obsessions, they substitute the nonsensical for sense, the ridiculous for the meaningful. Kukuljevic analyzes a series of artistic practices that illuminate this subjectivity, ranging from Marcel Duchamp's Three Standard Stoppages to Charles Baudelaire's melancholia. He considers the paradox of Duchamp's apparatus in the Stoppages and the strange comedy of Marcel Broodthaers's relation to the readymade; the comic subject in Jacques Vaché and the ridiculous subject in Alfred Jarry; the nihilist in Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste; Oswald Wiener's interpretation of the dandy; and Charles Baudelaire as a happy melancholic.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-131) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The metrologist : on Marcel Duchamp's Three standard stoppages
The object-subject : Marcel Broodthaers, merchant of the insincere
A sense of umour : Jacques Vaché
The ridiculous subject
Counting for nothing : the nihilist
Slippered negligence : the dandy
The happy melancholic
Conclusion : a hole in a thing it is not.
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ISBN
9780262534192 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0262534193 (paperback : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017000877
OCLC
978441961
Other standard number
40027443425
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