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Although in their writing about the Holocaust they had grappled with the possibility that some events may be unknowable, how the pretence to understand what is impossible to understand is bound to trivialize, and even the incommunicability of some experiences, when it came to 9/11 they wanted certainties and sought the data on which certainties are based. Donnelly belongs to a generation of West Coast artists taken with Bas Jan Ader's paragon of incommunicability, self-mythification, and antidocumentation. Such rites, gestures, and so on register a half century of anthropological knowledge, the effect of which has been to demonstrate that it is necessary to go beyond the image of the arbitrary and the incommunicability of cultures, an image profoundly linked to what Edward Said called orientalism and in a more general way to imperialism. |
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