Word: deconstructionism
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With a government addicted to dubious public works projects, Japan has earned its reputation as the Construction State. Need an example? With 113 major rivers, the country has no fewer than 2,734 dams. That's why last week's surprise announcement of the first-ever dismantling of a Japanese...
The last major series in the show deals with representation of measurements in photography. Through an Experiments in Art and Technology grant working with scientists, the artist became infatuated with scientific concerns about communication, quantification, numbers and measurements. Playing out these scientific concerns led to photographs of demarcated and measured...
When the political process enters the courtroom, the truth becomes malleable, corruptible, ultimately unknowable. This is American politics in a state of deconstruction - a form of postmodernist cardsharking.
To be sure, the mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of...
For one thing, flag burning (even though it occurs rarely) originated as one of the vivid, button-pushing ur-outrages committed during the great '60s deconstruction of American authority (which some boomers consider to be the beginning of the world) and engraved on the national memory by photographs of the...