Marcus Boon
Autore di The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
Sull'Autore
Marcus Boon is Associate Professor of English, York University, Toronto.
Opere di Marcus Boon
Opere correlate
Inspired Lives: The Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine (2005) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 10 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK (childhood)
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- New York University (MA, PhD - Comparative Literature)
University of London (BA - University College) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
professor (English)
AIDS activist - Relazioni
- Sonnabend, Joseph (Boon was Sonnabend's assistant)
- Organizzazioni
- York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ACT UP
Community Research Initiative on AIDS
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- 1
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- 160
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- Voto
- 4.0
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- ISBN
- 13
Louis Vuitton … work[s] the boundary between fine art and craftsmanship, but also, more importantly, between art and crafts and the commodity and mass production. The company associates its products with the world of fine arts in the hope that the aura of the unique art object will also be transferred to their bags and clothes, enhancing the atmosphere of craftsmanship, which may have existed in the time of Louis Vuitton himself, but which has surely been transformed in the age of global mass production and intellectual-property law. IP law paradoxically, and perhaps impossibly, demands that the discourse of essence, of original expression and uniqueness, be continually asserted in order for a monopoly on the right to mass-produce particular items to be maintained. Copying must be disavowed, aesthetically and legally, even as it supports the entire vast apparatus of production.
This book wasn’t for me; I’m not much of a philosopher. But he does draw a lot of provocative connections. From his very interesting blog: “Couldn’t you say that the car plant worker whose job is outsourced is also experiencing a crisis in the way that we relate to copies?”… (altro)