To ‘mediate’ ‘frameworks’ as ‘relationships’...one could switch the terms around with similar effect: to ‘framework mediations as relationship’, or perhaps to ‘relate mediations as frameworks’. The art historian quoted above is quite right to state that ‘such work’ likes to think of itself as a process rather than an object – if it stood still for more than five minutes someone might just notice that it makes absolutely no sense at all. The peculiar power of Nu-language, as a kind of pure formal currency, has precisely lead to a vapid never-ending abstraction that uses words like ‘consolidate’, ‘reconstellate’, ‘reconfigure’, ‘enhance’, ‘articulate’, as descriptors of some mythical ‘process’, like Hegel’s absolute spirit in a particularly insomniac phase. Nouns, like material products, appear to be out of fashion.
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