Dada's Subject and Structure

Performing Ideology Poorly

Brandon Pelcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 232 Seiten

2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-26612-6 (ISBN)

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Dada's Subject and Structure argues that Dadaist praxis was far more theoretically incisive than previous scholarship has indicated. The book combines theoretical frameworks surrounding ideological subject formation with critical media and genre histories in order to more closely read Dadaist techniques (e.g. montage, irony, nonsense, etc.) across multiple works. These readings reveal both Dada's preternatural focus on the discursive aspects of subject formation-linguistic sign, literary manifesto, photographic image, commodity form/aesthetics, which comprise the project's chapters-and on Dada's performative sabotage and subversion of them. In addition to highlighting commonalities between Dadaist works, artists, and chapters previously imagined disparate, the book shows how Dada simultaneously prefigured structuralist theories of subject formation and pre-performed post-structuralist critiques of those theories.

J. Brandon Pelcher is Lecturer of German at Tufts University in Boston (USA).

Introduction: Taking Dada and Ideology Seriously.- Chapter 1. "A Constant Problem and Preoccupation": Dada and/as Sign.- Chapter 2. "A Spectre is Haunting Dada": Dada and/as Manifesto.- Chapter 3. "We Need Only Take Scissors": Dada and/as Photographic Image.- Chapter 4. "So Its Useful Significance Disappeared": Dada and/as Commodity.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	XI, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	20th century literature • avant-garde • Dada • Ideology • Structuralism
ISBN-10	3-031-26612-9 / 3031266129
ISBN-13	978-3-031-26612-6 / 9783031266126
Zustand	Neuware