Photographer Andrew Bush’s instillation Speech Acts combines two photographs of book shelves–one of Jacques Derrida’s and one of John Searle’s. Derrida and Searle rumbled over the primacy of speech vs. writing in the 1970s (read Derrida’s seminal essay “Signature Event Context” for more).
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[…] before. The new picture is from a piece of artwork by Andrew Bush called “Speech Acts,” which can be viewed online. The artwork consists of two photographs, one of Derrida’s bookshelf (in particular, the […]
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