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- Title
Anti-public: Dada, negation and universality.
- Authors
Hutchinson, Mark
- Abstract
This article argues that Dada induced an 'anti-public' against the bourgeois public sphere. Against the idea of 'the public' as a collective noun for extant individuals, the idea of anti-public entails the belief that a truly universal public can only emerge from the partisan position of the excluded. A truly universal public emerges out of the negation of the current coordinates of culture. Dada embodies such a position of universality by occupying the position of the excrementally excluded of culture: the position of 'the philistine', as theorized by Beech and Roberts. This reasoning on negation and universality draws on the contemporary Marxist philosophy of Badiou, Lecercle and Žižek.
- Subjects
DADAISM; BOURGEOIS ideologies; PUBLIC sphere; NEGATION (Logic); MODERNISM (Art); RHETORIC &; culture
- Publication
Art & the Public Sphere, 2011, Vol 1, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
2042-793X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/aps.1.2.121_1