Friday, 10 April 2020

Before and After the fait accompli

Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘The Pleasure in Drawing’ (2013, p. 14). Fordham University Press.

The French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy makes a distinction between ‘demonstrative thought’ and ‘monstration’. Demonstration is a gradual process that can be followed step-by-step. On the other hand, monstration ‘puts one … before the fait accompli’. 

Monstration – ‘from wikipedia: "A monstration is a public performance similar to a demonstration, but intended as creative performance art, often parodying a serious demonstration." ... 
the monstration can be seen as a constructed situation that can intervene in existing institutional and public situations.’ From: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Monstration

According to Nancy, ‘drawing’s “fait accompli” is … the monstration of the form, idea, or thought’.





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