'The written word opens up a space of random appropriation, establishes a principle of untamed difference that is altogether unlike the universal exchangeability of commodities. To put it very crudely, you cannot lay your hands on capital like you can lay your hands on the written word. The play of language without hierarchy that violates an order based on the hierarchy of language is something completely different than the simple fact that a euro is worth a euro and that two commodities that are worth a euro are equivalent to one another. It is a matter of knowing if absolutely anyone can take over and redirect the power invested in language. This presupposes a modification in the relationship between the circulation of language and the social distribution of bodies, which is not at all at play in simple monetary exchange' (Ranciere, 2004, p.55).

Ranciere, J (2004), trans. Gabriel Rockhill, The Politics of Aesthetics. London: Continuum

The material life of objects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvdWk8zRrI

THINKING OBJECTS SCULTPURALLY - derive, detournement, unitary urbanism, psychogeography?

• An everyday object? What is an object? How is it different from a thing?
• An opening? A spacing of the everyday?
• Narratives of this spacing?
• A cupboard inaccessible - a storage facility for what?
• What construction are we situating?
• Image production - the accumulation of spectacle?
• Cultural materialism - culture is a productive process?

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

• Domestic spaces - the interior (psychological) life of these objects - hybrid objects - quality of intimacy


• The imagination and the cupboard


• Stationary cupboard

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life


The Psychogeography of objects?

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/projects/documents/MLOT-callforapplications_000.pdf


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