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Article: Mimesis and Alterity.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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Ah Love! could you and I with fate conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits--and then Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's desire?
--Omar Khayam, Rubayat
Europe, or the Western World, or Civilization, has been going around watching everyone for some time now. The good part of this is a kind of self-observation, so that we have complicated novels to read, and art that attempts self-exploration and intervention in the given narrative and, at the same time, a little distance. The bad part is that the Western World has not observed itself observing. It has not seen how active, how transforming, its watching has been for ...