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Article: Culture's in between. (concept of culture)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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A recent change in the writing of cultural criticism has left the prose plainer, less adorned with the props of the argument's staging. Where once "scare quotes" festooned the text with the frequency of garlands at an Indian wedding, there is now a certain sobrety to semiotic and post-Structuralist celebrations. The "isms" and "alities"--those tails that wagged the dogma of critical belief--no longer wave new paradigms or problematics into being. The death of th eauthor, or the interral of intention, are occurrences that arouse no more scandal than the sight of a hearse in a Palermo suburb. Critical practices that sought to detotalize social reality by demonstrating ...
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