Rosalind Krauss Reinventing The Medium Pdf [patched]
Introduction
Krauss saw this as a lazy fallacy. She believed that simply declaring the death of the medium was an act of theoretical bankruptcy. Instead, she proposed that the medium was not a physical substance (canvas, stone, bronze) but a recursive structure—a set of conventions, memories, and technical supports that an artist activates. rosalind krauss reinventing the medium pdf
- Critical Inquiry, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Winter 1999), pp. 289–312.
- Also collected in Krauss’s book: Perpetual Inventory (MIT Press, 2010), Chapter 1.
- Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the “infrathin” – the smallest possible difference between two seemingly identical things (e.g., the warmth of a seat just vacated). For Krauss, this becomes a model for how media operate at the threshold of perception.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of “language games” – specifically, the idea that meaning arises from rule-governed activities, not from reference to an external reality.
