J. Brandon Pelcher

Bio

J. Brandon Pelcher currently teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder and has published articles on phenomenological and aesthetic theories of forgetting, and the intersection of commodity culture and the historical avant-garde. He is presently at work on a book that explores Dadaist praxis and ideological subject formation.

Contributions

Ideology with an /i/: Reading Dada with Kurt Schwitters

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In 1951, Tristan Tzara looked back upon Dada and its works and attempted to summarize the breadth of their aggression: “Dada took the offensive and attacked the social system in its entirety.” [1] For Tzara, however, this had a specific goal: to “direct . . . [their] attacks against the very fundaments of society, language as the agent of communication between individuals, logic as the cement” (Tzara, “Introduction,” 404). [2] In many ways, Dadaist poetry uniquely embraced and embodied these...

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dada poetry