This photo and Sunday’s New York Times has led me to reconsider Damien Hirst
position in the splatter art movement:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/01/23/arts/23damien-hirst1/23damien-hirst1-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg
“Liquid Words
by Yve-Alain Bois
The e.sence of language is to be articulated. Such articulations can be as
smooth as one wishes; the~' arc no less divisive for ail that. In order for
language to function, signs must b,· isolable one from the other (Dtherwise
they would not be rcp,·at.ble). At l'very Incl (phonctic, scmantic, syntactic.
and so on) language has its own laws of combination and continuity, but its
primarl' material is constructed of irreducible atoms (phonemes for spoken
language. and for written, signs whose nature varies according to the system in
question: in alphabctical writing, for example, the distinctive unit is the
letter). Whoevcr says "articulation" always says, in the final instance,
"divisibility into minimal units": the articulus is the particle. Language is a
hierarchical combination of bits.”
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