VISA 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Simulacrum, Advanced Capitalism, Mimesis
9 Mar 2018
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In this respect copying clearly needs to be distinguished from plagiarism or pastiche proper given their associates with traditional craft, and of passing one thing off in the style or manner of another. Whereas the latter replicates the admired precedent as an act of indebtedness, the former takes the likeness of things in order to inscribe it, or reinscribe it, ina critical tradition or novel context. From already made media, there is an unreconstructed tendency to adopt the cartesian model of the artist as the self-bound manipulator of such devices, props, and strategies. The artist"s creativity is never implicated in these processes; that is, strategies of repetition, representation, reinscription and replication, are rarely seen as extending the identity and competences of the artist. Technique, technology and artistic subjectivity- art and social techniques- are separated.
