[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 10

[Navjotika Kumar]

Actually, there is the use of "complicity" in Hal Foster's  text "Subversive Signs" published in 1985 in "Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics." He speaks there at length about the tactic of "subversive complicity" in the work of Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, and others....

Navjotika Kumar

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, John Haber <jhaber at haberarts.com> wrote:

> From: John Haber <jhaber at haberarts.com>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 10
> To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 8:16 PM
> Neat question from Johanna.  I
> can't name a use of complicity in the 
> October crowd, and someone else here attributed it to
> Lukacs.  I 
> wouldn't want to conclude too much from that, like to
> complain that the 
> whole topic picked for Empyre was dated.  (Not sure
> that philosophy 
> dates anyhow.)  Maybe dialectics anticipates
> postmodernism.  Or maybe we 
> have to broaden the discussion to get more critics of the
> status quo. 
> 
> John
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