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==The Notion of the Discourse==
==The Notion of the Discourse==


This text is derived from a conversation I witnessed between two British thinkers, as presented at the 2011 Transmediale conference in Berlin. It was hard to keep track of what they were talking about as the conversation was so heavily intertwined with words, terms, and phrases that are used to describe something, rather than actually saying something.
This text is based on a conversation I witnessed between two British thinkers, as they presented art works to an audience at a conference. It was hard to focus on what was being said, as the conversation was heavily intertwined with words, terms, and phrases that are used to describe something rather than defining something. By notating only what was said in this inbetween space, a vague, yet comical landscape of artspeak unfolds.  





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The Notion of the Discourse

This text is based on a conversation I witnessed between two British thinkers, as they presented art works to an audience at a conference. It was hard to focus on what was being said, as the conversation was heavily intertwined with words, terms, and phrases that are used to describe something rather than defining something. By notating only what was said in this inbetween space, a vague, yet comical landscape of artspeak unfolds.


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the notion of

sort of

in a sense

a way to

in a sense

both

and

a little bit

in which

in a sense

as a kind of

or so

relatively

and so on

in a sense

on the idea of

in a kind of

in a way

quite

very interesting

sort of

both from

and kind of

in a way

you know

the end or the beginning

as both a kind of

in a sense

on the one hand

most of which

rather sort of

either

or not

not really