research log: representation 4

Barbara Bolt, Art Beyond Representation: “What is at issue is not so much representation in itself, but rather how,  in the modern world,  representation has come to be understood as the structure that enables representationalism to dominate our contemporary way of think.  representationalism  is a system of thought that fixes the world as an object and resource for human subjects.  As a mode of thought that prescribes all that is know, it order the world and predetermines what can be thought.  Representation becomes the vehicle through which representationalism can effect this will to fixity and mastery”  (12-13).

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