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Liquidation World - On the Art of Living Absently (Paperback)
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Liquidation World - On the Art of Living Absently (Paperback)
Series: Short Circuits
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An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute
figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire
to Broodthaers. In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a
distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of
the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a
dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of
its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a
fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves
by a paradoxical disidentification-through the objects that take
their places. They have mastered the art of living absently, of
making something with nothing. Traversing their own morbid
obsessions, they substitute the nonsensical for sense, the
ridiculous for the meaningful. Kukuljevic analyzes a series of
artistic practices that illuminate this subjectivity, ranging from
Marcel Duchamp's Three Standard Stoppages to Charles Baudelaire's
melancholia. He considers the paradox of Duchamp's apparatus in the
Stoppages and the strange comedy of Marcel Broodthaers's relation
to the readymade; the comic subject in Jacques Vache and the
ridiculous subject in Alfred Jarry; the nihilist in Paul Valery's
Monsieur Teste; Oswald Wiener's interpretation of the dandy; and
Charles Baudelaire as a happy melancholic. Along the way, he also
touches on the work of Thomas Bernhard, Andy Kaufman, Buster
Keaton, and others. Finally, he offers an extended analysis of
Danny's escape from his demented father in Stanley Kubrick's The
Shining. Each of these subjects is, in Freud's terms, sick-sick in
the specific sense that they assume the absence of meaning and the
liquidation of value in the world. They concern themselves with
art, without assuming its value or meaning. Utterly debased,
fundamentally disoriented, they take the void as their medium.
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