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At the 2007 Venice Biennale, Sophie Calle filled the French Pavillon with responses, by more than 100 women, to a personal letter that had originally been addressed to her; an email, to be precise, with which a boyfriend informed her that he would leave her. ‘Take care of yourself,’ the email ends. This phrase became the title for the piece in which each participating woman responded to the email in her individual way and according to her profession.
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Roland Barthes, “La Mort de L’Auteur” 1968, in Essais Critiques IV, Le Bruissement De La Langue (Paris: Seuil, 1984), 61–66.
- 2.
Alfred Pacquement, “Preface,” in Sophie Calle, M’as-tu vue, ed. Christine Macel (Paris: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 2003), 15.
- 3.
Michel Foucault, “What is Critique?,” in The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth & Catherine Porter (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007), 42.
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Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment,” in On History, trans. L. White Beck (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963), 9.
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Foucault, “What is Critique?,” 47.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer, Plato’s Dialectical Ethics: Phenomenological Interpretations Relating to the Philebus, trans. Robert M. Wallace (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1991), 3.
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See Gadamer, “The Relevance of the Beautiful,” in The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays, ed. R. Bernasconi, trans. N. Walker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
- 8.
Ibid.
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Halsall, F., Jansen, J., Murphy, S. (2012). Introduction: Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices. In: Halsall, F., Jansen, J., Murphy, S. (eds) Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1509-7_1
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