Fried avec Debord
Theatricality by Default
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Tupitsyn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-88 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412917690968 |
| OpenAlex | W2606753447 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The title of this article alludes to Jacques Lacan’s text ‘Kant avec Sade’ (1963). With that in mind, the author compares Michael Fried’s Art and Objecthood (1998[1967) to Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, also published in 1967. Whereas Fried unleashes his criticism against ‘the condition of theatre’ and its mounting presence in the realm of visual culture, Debord accuses spectacle of ‘becoming a life style’, endorsed by power structures and fuelled by the media. Chances are that neither art nor objecthood, but rather the spectacle itself is ‘the chief product of present-day society’. Or should we agree that human beings are homo theatricals, for whom ‘the condition of theatre’ is an inalienable part of their ‘social contract’. Among the issues discussed here are ‘ Heterotopia of the spectacle’ (e.g. play within a play) and the ‘theatrical drive’, which plays a fundamental role in balancing the rivalry between libido (Eros) and the ‘death drive’ (Thanatos) in the playhouse of our psychic life
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Commodification · Criticism · Eroticism · Human sexuality · Literature · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Social criticism · Sociology · Spectacle · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |