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In this issue: retooling.

Publication: Art Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In this issue: retooling.(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Despite its familiarity in the literature of critical postmodernism, the image of Walter Benjamin's angel of history confronted with the accumulating scrap heap of the past as s/he speeds backwards into the future still holds potent lessons. The theory of remediation, for instance, proposes that new mediums (especially ''new media'') not only supplant the aesthetic principles and practices of older mediums in favor of greater veridicality, but also, in an act of retrospection, refashion the conventions and even the practices of those older forms. (1) Such retooling, technical but...

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