The book "The Beautiful Language of My Century" examines the language of contestation, specifically Situationist 'aesthetics' of appropriation and 'detournement' which gave cultural form to a struggle over meaning, and agency. The author, Tom McDonough also examines the inheritances in the work of Pierre Huyghe, Phillippe Parreno, and the curator Nicolas Bourriaud, and their [in] sensitivity to the failures of detournement, and subsequent strategies for 'post-production', itself a denial of reification [the transport of life to 'thingness'] that Situationism addressed, an affirmation of the pure objects, and events, of the grotesque quality of commodities...to be contested and continually adjusted by art as absolute commodification.
MIT PRESS, October Books
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