Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Edited book | In my End is my Beginning
Chapter | The Archive, Memory and Media in Crisis: Jon Rafman’s Poetic Disruptions of the Present
The Archive, Memory and Media in Crisis: Jon Rafman’s Poetic Disruptions of the Present
Abstract
The article considers three video works by artist Jon Rafman as a poetic negotiation of digitally mediated subjectivity, with the aim of showing how an artwork may engage with the present affective complexes which escape objectification and rationalization. Drawing from archival, memory and media studies the analysis will show how the works unsettle established dichotomies and open space for new temporalities and subjectivities. Traditional binaries come undone within the digital subject, whose liminal position points to cultural preconditions and limitations of objective truth and rationality – putting the works at the center of utopian thought.
Submitted: Oct. 1, 2024 | Published Dec. 11, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Utopian imagination • Digital media • Mediated memories • Cyberflâneur • Hauntology
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