its (collage's) heterogeneity, even if it is reduced by every operation of composition, imposes itself on the reading as stimulation to produce a signification which could be neither univocal nor stable. Each sited element breaks the continuity or the linearity of the discourse and leads necessarily to a double reading: that of the fragment perceived in relation to the text of its origin; that of the same fragment as incorporated into a new whole, a different totality. The trick of collage consists of never entirely suppressing the alterity of these elements reunited in a temporary composition. Thus the art of collage proves to be one of the most effective strategies in putting into question all of the illusions of representation. ( collages 34-5)
Grammatology Derrida
Montage does not reproduce the real, but constructs and object ( its lexical field includes the terms "assemble, build, join, unite, add, combine, link, construct, organise" Montage 121 or rather mounts a process ( " the relation of form to content is no longer a relation of exteririty, the form resembling clothes which can dress no matter what its content, it is process, genesis, result of a work" in order to intervene in the world, not to reflect but to change reality.
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The object of post criticism
Gregory L Ulmer
The anti aesthetic
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