Courting Dissolution
Subtitle: Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image
Publisher: Transcript Verlag; Transcript-Verlag
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9783837635744
Subjects: Art, philosophy
Description: Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonization and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, Lent promotes a spatial practice of radical alterity. Examining ideas of disappearance put forth by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, he utilises art as a means for investigating loss of potentiality and experience through the representation of space, shifting their ideas originally ascribed to objects into a new emphasis. This book ultimately attempts to break a cyclical system that causes everything to disappear into representation and equivalency.