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Marcel Duchamp clip from The Shock of the New (1982) The Mechanical Paradise
April 11, 2010 by admin, under artworks, bio-feedback / cybernetics, formal / structural / grids, inter-bodies / half-objects, mirrors / displays / frames, videos.
Here we can see Duchamp’s shift from linear thinking (Nude Descending Staircase) to something more circular (Bride Stripped Bare..), something he would later call “delay”, as Jerrold Segal notes, “suspended in a space it never traverses.”
The clip of course seems to reffer more to these movements in relation to asthetics, psychological and (male) sexual frustration. What is lacking in Robert Hughes analysis lies in relation to a social, political and economical shifts occuring at the time: a shift from a simplified modernist linear progression of technology moving towards a more lateral, circular and rhizomatic technological progression in a lumming post-modern era.
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