Spacing philosophy : Lyotard and the idea of the exhibition

Birnbaum, Daniel 1963- (author.). Wallenstein, Sven-Olov (Added Author).

Summary: In 1985, the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated 'Les Immatériaux' at Centre Georges Pompidou. Though widely misunderstood at the time, the exhibition marked a 'curatorial turn' in critical theory. Through its experimental layout and hybrid presentation of objects, technologies, and ideas, this pioneering exploration of virtuality reflected on the exhibition as a medium of communication, and anticipated a deeper engagement with immersive and digital space in both art and theory. In Spacing Philosophy, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology. 'Les Immatériaux' can thus be seen as a culmination and materialization of a life's work as well as a primer for the many thought-exhibitions produced in the following decades.

Record details

ISBN: 9783956793882
ISBN: 3956793889
Physical Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Publisher: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249).

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface / Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum -- Introduction : The Figure of Thought -- Exhibitions -- Exhibition Histories -- The World Exhibitions and the Space of the Commodity -- The Avant-Garde and the Refunctioning of Perception -- Conceptual Art and Dematerialization -- Digression : Daniel Buren and the Space of the Exhibition -- Rewriting Modernity -- Models -- The Nexus between Philosophy and Art -- Adorno and the Non-identical -- Merleau-Ponty and the Sensible -- Lyotard's Response -- The Boundaries of the Book -- Rewriting the Postmodern -- Aesthetics of the Underground -- Beneath Phenomenology -- Language and the Visual, Discourse and Figure -- Toward the Matrix -- Beyond the Book -- Immaterials -- Zones and Sites -- Entrance -- Digression on Beckett -- First Path : Matériau -- Second Path : Matrice -- Third Path : Matériel -- Fourth Path : Matière -- Fifth Path : Maternité -- Labyrinth of Language -- Digression : Presence and Deferral; Newman and Duchamp -- Resistances -- Resistance, Passibility, Infancy -- The Crisis of Foundations -- Rewriting Freud -- The Limits of Communication -- An Aesthetic of Presence -- Spacing Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Biographies.