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- Title
Being prescient concerning Obama, or Notes on the politics of configuration (part one).
- Authors
Dilnot, Clive
- Abstract
What is dissent in the case of the image? What are the politics implicit in the critical use of configuration? Design has a general difficulty with being critical. Though less so in the graphic arts, where a tradition of picture-as-commentary is (just) maintained, the technological instrumentality to which design is always prone – let alone its obeisance to money – means that design generally prefers not to think that it can think. But design is perfectly capable of thinking. Or, to put it another way, configuration is a thought-act. Politically speaking therefore the politics of the image happens when by design (by choreography, by reconfiguration, by (re-) working of the given conditions of representation) the graphic figure is transformed, through re-configuration, into a proposition. It is as a proposition, i.e., as a contribution to thought, that the image undertakes political work.
- Subjects
DESIGN -- Social aspects; GRAPHIC arts; PROPOSITION (Logic); IMAGE; ART &; politics; ART &; state; POLITICS in art; ARTISTIC creation -- Social aspects; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-
- Publication
Poster, 2010, Vol 1, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
2040-3704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/post.1.1.7_1