Duchamp, Aesthetics and Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781032338187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 88 str.

Julian Jason Haladyn

Opis

This book is a significant re-thinking of Duchamp’s importance in the twenty-first century, taking seriously the readymade as a critical exploration of object-oriented relations under the conditions of consumer capitalism.

Spis treści

List of figures

Acknowledgments

1 Apropos

2 Readymade as object

3 Capitalist accelerations

4 Aesthetics and the object

5 Comb

6 Speeding up language

7 Challenges to origineity

8 Consequences of a Duchampian accelerationism [1]

9 The choice economy

10 Readymade as black hole

11 Consequences of a Duchampian accelerationism [2]

12 Tzanck Check

13 Note on a readymade economics

14 Missed creative acts

15 Remade readymades

16 We Will Wait

17 An accelerated Duchamp

O autorze

Julian Jason Haladyn is an art historian, cultural theorist and professor at OCAD University, Canada.