No single material defines our era. Stone and iron are still used in massive quantities, on a scale never before imagined; the same goes for sand, all the other metals, leathers, wood, and so on. And we have added, as a novelty, plastic and all the derivatives of petroleum. The last of these has led some to think of ours … Read more →
Many professional comedians have come to believe the fantasy of the jester telling the King uncomfortable truths. At least they recognise their condition as servants. As for the uncomfortable truths, they resemble those journalists who, far from telling any such thing, are the mouthpieces of dominant thought — in their case, of the fashionable aesthetic among the young media-consuming public, … Read more →
The thesis to be set out here is the following: many works of current art present themselves wrapped in the text of their own justification — the catalogue text in which they are embedded — as though they were tied to it of necessity, when in reality the work itself, in its material-conceptual form, need not refer to that text … Read more →
Inertia is understood here in a sense close to the one set out by Newtonian physics in its first law, which we take as known. We apply this sense to any process or material state indifferent to the subject’s intentions and prior to his operations. As an example: a block of raw stone confronted by a sculptor is an inertia. … Read more →