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The Natural Order and Other Texts
In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The Natural Order, Value and Economy and Luck and Chance. Offering a unique insight into an artist's attempt to make sense of a contemporary world which would accommodate his practice, these texts present an important contribution to aesthetics for modern art and an attempt at philosophical reconciliation of modern science and modern art. In 1961 Jorn resigned from the Situationist International and took the ideas of thinkers in many fields and amalgamated them into 'the first complete revision of the existing philosophical system' from the point of view of an artist. He developed a theory of artistic value and the place of the creative elite and adapted his previous ideas of extreme aesthetics to fit into this 'natural order'.
Including a comprehensive introduction, Peter Shield's translations of Asger Jorn's classic texts offer invaluable new perspectives to readers crossing the boundaries of philosophy, art history and theory, and cultural studies.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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November 19, 2024
So... These are the full versions of the translations in Cosmonauts of the Future.. there's three pieces here each with some varying quality.
1. The Natural Order
Strange pataphysical spin out of the Copenhagen Interpretation. Not particularly great (and filled with some of the most pataphysical moments of all time lol) but the triolectics stuff is useful (2.5/5)
2. Value and Economy
An artistic critique of Marx's Capital that falls a bit short in actually critiquing what Marx wrote (or even further Marxist developments). It goes a bit off the deep end when he talks about LTV (*not* Marx's actual theory of value) in the context of media consumption. (2.5/5)
3. Luck and Chance
A good treatise on "extreme aesthetics" - here we almost end up with some kind of post-SI futurism and it has some great stuff in it but reads more like an intro text than anything substantial (4/5)
1. The Natural Order
Strange pataphysical spin out of the Copenhagen Interpretation. Not particularly great (and filled with some of the most pataphysical moments of all time lol) but the triolectics stuff is useful (2.5/5)
2. Value and Economy
An artistic critique of Marx's Capital that falls a bit short in actually critiquing what Marx wrote (or even further Marxist developments). It goes a bit off the deep end when he talks about LTV (*not* Marx's actual theory of value) in the context of media consumption. (2.5/5)
3. Luck and Chance
A good treatise on "extreme aesthetics" - here we almost end up with some kind of post-SI futurism and it has some great stuff in it but reads more like an intro text than anything substantial (4/5)
July 31, 2014
Women are idiots, men are idiots, at the least the ones who fulfill the part that is required from them.
Inteligente and provocative without loosing it's cool and fun. Asger Jorn as we know it.
Inteligente and provocative without loosing it's cool and fun. Asger Jorn as we know it.
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