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A talk-essay of mine from a couple of years previous has been kindly published on Edmund Hardy’s
Intercapillary Space. Her
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a sample:
“Poetry is intrinsically
futural: it delineates a relationship to the future that is both simple and
impossible. It makes a future by refusing to relinquish its possibilities of
commitment and thoughtful pressure to the critical idiom of the spectacle of
resistance. I think that the “demand [...] placed on thought” by the attempt to
fashion the impossible perspectives that Adorno describes could help to
formulate a criticism that would define poems not as loci of resistance, serene
in their localised discretion, but as the echoes of the future from which
resistance gains its energies, tactics and emotional intelligence of
possibility.
Perhaps this would help us to think about poetry as the historical expression
of presently ineradicable social contradictions, rather than, as it sometimes
feels with the resistance model, as the cauterization or suppression of those
contradictions in the service of defending the authentic remnants of a life
already given over to its pre-, post- or sub-aesthetic abolition. I wonder if
this might either intersect with, or entirely bypass, Jacques Rancière’s
polemical distinction between the pretentious uselessness of critical art
conceived as such on the one hand, and the critical attention to the dogma of
the equality of the intelligence on the other, by which lights his theory
re-interprets entire swathes of 20th century art as the historical
hangover of the failures of didactic methodology and of the misguided
ontological compartmentalisation of art and life.”
The full weft can be read on the Intercapillary Space website, and the original oral delivery can be recovered here, and below.
ED ATKINS «Un-like». Part 3: WORDS. 26 April 2014. from Kunsthalle Zürich on Vimeo.
Ed Atkins, Ann Cotten, James Richards and Adam Kleinman are also represented. Some of the discussion is omitted.
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