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Article: Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art.
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edited by Julia Knight Bedfordshire: John Libbey Media at University of Luton Press, 1996 384 pp./[pounds]17.50 (sb)
The problem of history troubles nearly every essay in Julia Knight's anthology, Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art, though some more productively than others. Perhaps it is better to say that the intimation of some ineffable history - audible as the background hiss of all the other thoughts one might have about a given set of videographic data - renders each of the collection's accounts virtual in some significant way, threatening their rhetorics of coherence. Knight's introduction to the volume admits that "the single term ...
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