Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him"
This took me a while to wrap my head around, but I think I can now understand how it would be useful to my argument, especially in relation to the Triple Canopy essay about International Art English.
International Art English - Alix Rule and David Levine
"This language has everything to do with English, but it is emphatically not English"
"IAE is identifiable as the Art world's universally foreign language"
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - Steven Pinker
"The conscious mind - the self or soul - is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief"
"The left hemisphere constantly weaves a coherent but false account of the behaviour or language chosen without its knowledge by the right"
Pinker argues the existence of a "baloney generator", a built in device that allows the brain to create coherence out of chaos. Basically, enabling us to bullshit our ways out of just about any scenario. This could be interesting to use in discussing IAE, and the pretensions of the gallery institution.
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