(Un)Dinge, oder warum die Sehnsucht nach dem Ding immer reaktionär ist

Richter, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9830-9764 (2016) (Un)Dinge, oder warum die Sehnsucht nach dem Ding immer reaktionär ist. Interdisziplinäres Ausstellen, 16 (1-2). pp. 8-15. ISSN 1015-6720

Abstract/Summary

As the title indicates, an emphasis on things always makes me feel uncomfortable, not to say unhappy. Have we not been here before, and have we not, with good reason, rejected the auratic view of things? What is the thing, or even the thing in itself, and why is there this cyclically recurring nostalgia for the thing in its pure aspect? Let us think about the question in a number of stages. Firstly, the present day; secondly we will examine the positioning of the “thing”; thirdly we will make an attempt at the deconstruction of subject and object, and fourthly we will consider this thing in the context of the exhibiting institution.

Additional Information	(NON-)THINGS or why nostalgia for the thing is always reactionary (Trans. Judith Rosenthal)
Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/74740
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Art > Fine Art
Additional Information	(NON-)THINGS or why nostalgia for the thing is always reactionary (Trans. Judith Rosenthal)
Publisher	Oesterreichischer Museumsbund
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