Anodyne
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
 

Scissors, glue


Jasper Johns, Target, 1971


Robert Rauschenberg, Erased De Kooning Drawing, 1953


Tim Lee, Untitled (No. 4, 1970), 2002
Permanently altered production proof
Collection of CJB

"For Bataille, and Mauss, economic rationalism cannot explain all the practices of production and consumption. This type of approach concentrates on a restrictive economy which tries to rationalise (individual) actions from an economic rationale. For example, a person would only expend their energy on an activity if it was an economically prudent decision. In contrast, a general economy is the practice of (cosmic) expenditure that ‘go[es] against judgments that form a basis of a rational economy.’ This type of expenditure is also a practice of affirmation that 'affirm[s] that it is necessary to dissipate a substantial portion of energy produced, sending it up in smoke.’"
- posted by cjb @ 10:00 PM


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