language

Ludwig Wittgenstein (On Certainty) (2008), by Scott King

black/white, certainty, imagery, language, philosophy, quotation, reference
Friday, May 10th, 2013

Sharpening Fantasy (2013), by Douglas Gordon

black/white, imagery, language, right/left, wall
Friday, May 10th, 2013

Image Pattern Gratification (2013), by Shannon Ebner

black/white, copy, imagery, language, orthography, print
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

Picture of my breakfast (2012), by Jennifer Grimyser

artist subject, breakfast, imagery, language, note, subject, writing
Sunday, January 27th, 2013

Some Imperatives. (2011), by Tim Etchells

imagery, imperative, language, layer, overlay, painting, performance, wall, writing
Sunday, January 27th, 2013

With the rise of the Web, writing has met its photography. By that, I mean that writing has encountered a situation similar to that of painting upon the invention of photography, a technology so much better at doing what the art form had been trying to do that, to survive, the field had to alter its course radically. If photography was striving for sharp focus, painting was forced to go soft, hence impressionism. Faced with an unprecedented amount of available digital text, writing needs to redefine itself to adapt to the new environment of textual abundance.
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Against Expression. An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011), by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (eds.)

internet, language, metaworks, technology, theory, writing
Sunday, January 27th, 2013

When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make? We ascribe an agency to language, a power to injure, and position ourselves as the objects of its injurious trajectory. We claim that language acts, and acts against us, and the claim we make is a further instance of language, one which seeks to arrest the force of the prior instance. Thus, we exercise the force of language even as we seek to counter its force, caught up in a bind that no act of censorship can undo.
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Excitable Speech. A Politics of the Performative (1997), by Judith Butler

feminism, language, linguistics, metaworks, performance, theory
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

Is it certain that to the word communication corresponds a concept that is unique, univocal, rigorously controllable, and transmittable: in a word, communicable? Thus, in accordance with a strange figure of discourse, one must first of all ask oneself whether or not the word or signifier “communication” communicates a determinate content, an identifiable meaning, or a describable value.
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Signature Event Context (1972), by Jacques Derrida

context, language, linguistics, metaworks, performance, theory
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

I COULD HAVE pretended to begin with a “false” beginning, my penchant for falsity [pour le faux] no longer requiring special demonstration. I could have simulated what in French is called a “faux départ” (I ask that the translator retain the quotation marks, the parentheses, the italics, and the French).
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Limited Inc a b c . . . (1977), by Jacques Derrida

language, linguistics, metaworks, performance, theory
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

To write means, of course, to perform an action by which a material, (for instance chalk, or ink), is put on a surface, (for instance a blackboard or a leaf of paper), to form a specific pattern, (for instance letters). And the tools used during this action, (for instance brushed and typewriters), are instruments which add something to something.
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Es handelt sich darum, ein Material auf eine Oberfläche zu bringen (zum Beispiel Kreide auf eine schwarze Tafel), um Formen zu konstruieren (zum Beispiel Buchstaben). Also anscheinend um eine konstruktive Geste: Konstruktion = Verbindung unterschiedlicher Strukturen (zum Beispiel Kreide und Tafel), um eine neue Struktur zu formen (zum Beispiel Buchstaben).
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The Gesture of Writing (1991), by Vilém Flusser

body, language, metaworks, performance, theory, tool, writing
Monday, December 17th, 2012

Human life can be described as a prolonged dialogue with the world. Man interrogates the world as is interrogated by the world. This dialogue is regulated by the way in which we define the legitimate questions that we may address to the world or the world may address to us – and the way in which we can identify the relevant answers to these questions.
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Google: Words beyond Grammar (2012), by Boris Groys

cloud, context, google, internet, language, metaworks, politics, post-internet, research, searching, theory
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012