Dada Presentism

Stavrinaki, Maria

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“…12 See (Haynes 1995) for an astute introduction to Bakhtin's philosophy of creativity extended to visual arts, specifically painting and sculpture, as well as (Lake 2019) where she draws on Bakhtin to elucidate authorial presence in the novel through our need of the other. 13 Buber's emphasis on presence and its immediacy in the event of dialogical personalism not only resonates with but provides the philosophical and theological basis for Maria Stavrinaki's recent historical rereading of Dada art (Stavrinaki 2016), whereby presentism "seemed to be the only type of time favorable to the exercise of freedom" that ". .…”

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The Difference of Indifference: Marcel Duchamp and the Possibilities of Dialogical Personalism

Garrett

2024

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Joseph Kosuth, one of Concept Art’s influential practitioners, credited Marcel Duchamp in an important 1969 essay, “Art After Philosophy”, with instigating the shift from the visual to the conceptual by means of indifference and dematerialization. Duchamp’s approach to art was not limited, however, to the realm of artistic intention but also included the (re)contextualization provoked by his readymades. This (re)contextualization elucidated the embodied, dialogical encounters of the artist-artwork-audience, what I identify as an “aesthetics of difference”. This designation sets forth a framework of meaning that draws upon a burgeoning subset of early-twentieth-century personalist philosophy called dialogical personalism in order to offer a more suitable plausibility structure than the usual explanations of Duchamp and his approach to art, which typically revolve around nihilism, absurdity, and a solipsistic understanding of freedom. In doing so, Duchamp’s artistic approach retains not only a more viable ontology for continuing to question the nature of art, but also has important epistemological and ethical implications.

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The Difference of Indifference: Marcel Duchamp and the Possibilities of Dialogical Personalism

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2024

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“…Like the futurists, Dadaists pursued the 'total dissolution of the past' and the 'total negation of everything that had existed before', and yet their vision did not extend to an idealised future (Richter, 1965: 48). Maria Stavrinaki's (2016) superb essay Dada Presentism captures Dada's philosophic stance and its indebtedness to Nietzsche's critique of historicism in imagery drawn from Walter Benjamin's (1968) 'Theses on the Philosophy of History':…”

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How modernity’s futurism puts children in the front line

Jessop

2018

Childhood

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What conceptualisations of the child might explain the communicative and rhetorical significance of their selection as targets in acts of terror? It is argued that the child as an embodiment of modernity’s enthralment to the future’s promises of progress or redemption puts them on this front line. As an alternative to modernity’s futurism, Surrealism presents us with a conceptualisation of the child that anticipates contemporary ideas of ‘queerness’. The recognition of the child’s transgressive attitude to the credo of modernity can be a way of resisting increasingly instrumentalised ways of thinking about children.

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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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The Difference of Indifference: Marcel Duchamp and the Possibilities of Dialogical Personalism

The Difference of Indifference: Marcel Duchamp and the Possibilities of Dialogical Personalism

How modernity’s futurism puts children in the front line

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