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incoherence [‚in·kō′hir·əns] (medicine) Lack of coherence, relevance, or continuity of ideas or language. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The ascendancy of surface and complete unintelligibility of depth goes some way toward explaining why art practices, once comfortably confined by conceptual and even formal boundaries, now spread ravenously outward, indifferent to locale, staging themselves serially across a vast horizontal plain of interchangeable opportunities: The museum, a storefront, your bedroom, online, even a toilet--all blossom as sites of meaning when the artist arrives, bringing his beaming face with him. In other words, as Jonathan Culler observes, complaints about obscurity and unintelligibility are "generally complaints about a philosophical mode: a mode of thought one finds uncongenial, concerns of which one doesn't see the pertinence, so that the writing seems pointless and pretentious in its flaunting of specialized language. Thus, as in Alurista's poem above, the interplay of intelligibility and unintelligibility ends with an assertion of the latter. |
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