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Durgin: As a literary phenomenon, the aphorism is unique. It is replete, sufficient, and never dissipated by any attempt to repeat it. It has no context, because the text includes and concludes everything to which it refers. Its power is in its apparent docility. Only apparent, though: it’s a fiction. And such apparitions are what permit us to see a supplementary dimension. As Broodthaers put it, I believe a fictitious museum like mine allows people to get a grasp of reality as well as what it conceals. Fiction subtends the real. Standing in the Musée d’art moderne, that thesis is all we’re left to marvel at. Vis-a-vis the “marvelous,” Institutional Critique is invented as an unholy mix of modernist bluster and postmodern blather. But there is mixture, and then there is letting.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:02:01 +0000

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