Marcel Duchamp and J. L. Austin: Readymades and Performative Utterances

Marcel Duchamp and J. L. Austin: Readymades and Performative Utterance

Ambiguities and Performatives: and Performances, Too. Graham Hough; Chris Kraus/ Jenny Turner

 The most striking sentence in the late Graham Hough’s essay ‘An Eighth Type of Ambiguity’ is: “…behind Empson’s seven types of ambiguity there lurks an eighth – ambiguity between intended and achieved meaning” (p. 223). Hough illustrates the difference between intended and achieved meaning elegantly, in a series of pieces of literary analysis with which none of the old ‘New Critics’ could disagree, and which any post-Derrida, post-Theory (theory of what?) critic need not cavil at. For all the commonsensicality of Hough’s literary analysis, it is not quite clear that Empson’s seven types and Hough’s eighth type one of the same logical type. This is a question to which I shall have to return. It is the issue crucial to what seems to be Hough’s claim to add 1 to Empson’s 7: If, indeed, that is his claim.&nbsp

No Heroes: The photographs of Roger Hutchings

An anthology examining the work of the renowned British photojournalist Roger Hutchings, from his early work for The Observer, his extended documentary project on the Kurds in Southern Turkey, his work in the Balkans during the wars in the Former Yugoslavia and his photographs of the fashion industry for Giorgio Armani. 128 page softback in colour and black and white duotone. Edited by Patrick Sutherland with preface by Sutherland, essay by Stephen Mayes and fifty six photographs by Hutchings