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Downdrift by Johanna Drucker6/21/2023 JOHANNA DRUCKER is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. This talk challenges the validity of these premises and asks how a theory of contemporaneity might alter the prevailing mythology by expanding the historical and cultural frameworks, and asking how the concepts of “critique” have come to be complicit with a politics of radical instability. From William Blake’s famous dictum that art should “open the doors of perception,” through the Russian avant-garde “making strange” and Situationist’s “detournement” a clear through line connects to the German and French lineages of critical theory that produce Jacques Rancière’s notion of dissensus. But one mythic principle remains-that aesthetics is a politics and serves as the moral conscience and activist agent of culture. The Departments of Printmedia, Visual & Critical Studies, The Graduate Division Immediacies Cluster, and the Joan Flasch Artist Books Collection are excited to present upcoming events with visiting artist Johanna Drucker.ĬONTEMPORANEITY Modernism appears to be long gone, its universal claims dispelled and discredited, its formal styles historicized and identity politics radically revised.
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