White Holes and the Visualization of the Body
This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools. Paić argues that the human body has become obsolete in relation to the developmen
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White Holes and the Visualization of the Body
Žarko Paić
White Holes and the Visualization of the Body
Žarko Paić Department of Fashion Design University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
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Preface
If we remove the tone of the vatic dimension of speech and the tone of the apocalyptic in speech about what is to come in the arriving, it would seem that contemporary art immersed in the dark shadows of the present would lose any kind of sense of its own sovereign right to the destruction of everything in existence, including itself. Haven’t watershed thinkers and artists of the modern period demanded that it should be overcome and superseded in the immanent transcendence of the world, from Nietzsche to Artaud, from Duchamp to Debord? Perhaps the time has finally arrived for us to free ourselves of the temptation of cutting art down to a profane commentary on philosophical and scientific interpretations of the world and to its being used to further social change and awareness of general change in the actual world. All these are superficial and external definitions of that with which contemporary art confronts us, still retaining the primordial understanding of creating something new-in-the-world. It is necessary to get rid of what follows when the paradigm shift from metaphysics to cybernetics is coming. I owe my thanks to close friends and colleagues, who encouraged me to create this book devoted to mutual rela
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