Maria Koroleva is a linguist, studied art criticism, and has been editing and writing for magazines about art-related issues for five years. Due to structural issues with the discipline, she is slowly moving towards semiotics.
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Artext: What Postpones the Union between Symbolic Systems & Language? – Part III
[Due to space constraints, the foregoing essay was be published in three instalments. Parts I and II can be found here and here.—Ed.] Struggle between Symbol Equality and Logocentrism The way out of the irrationality of imagery—understood as a united symbolic system—lies precisely opposite to physical objects, in reason. None of the philosophers mentioned earlier… Read More »
Artext: What Postpones the Union between Symbolic Systems & Language? – Part II
[Due to space constraints, the foregoing essay will be published in three instalments. Part I can be read here.—Ed.] From Object to Image through Displacement In art history there is an implicit belief that human intuition is limited by external physiological mechanisms. The encounter with an object may thus be seen as a traumatizing event.… Read More »
Artext: What Postpones the Union between Symbolic Systems & Language? – Part I
[Due to space constraints, the foregoing essay will be published in three instalments.—Ed.] Introduction The author of this text is confident that none of these reflections are timely during the war, and harbors doubts about their subsequent significance. It is difficult to escape a common remark about the impossibility of poetry after Bucha—with all kinds… Read More »