Julieta Aranda,
Brian Kuan Wood,
Anton Vidokle,
et al.Metahaven, Sven Lütticken, Elvia Wilk, iLiana Fokianaki, Aaron Schuster, Claire Tancons, Jörg Heiser, Cuauhtémoc Medina, [1 More...]
There is a certain plasticity of meaning inherent in any use of language. If that weren’t the case, poetry and literature would not exist. There would only be contracts, scientific formulas, shopping lists, and so forth. Journalism would be properly factual—there would be no fake news or disinformation. All utterances would document isolated events, never evoking larger patterns or tapping into hidden desires. But then the question arises: Even if language could be cleansed of all ambiguity and spin, what role would images play?
If language is the problem, images can only be worse. Against a backdrop where postmodern slippages in ...