Dada's Subject and Structure

Performing Ideology Poorly

Brandon Pelcher

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Palgrave Macmillan
12 July 2023

Dada’s Subject and Structure argues that Dadaist praxis was far more theoretically incisive than previous scholarship has indicated. The book combines theoretical frameworks surrounding ideological subject formation with critical media and genre histories in order to more closely read Dadaist techniques (e.g. montage, irony, nonsense, etc.) across multiple works. These readings reveal both Dada’s preternatural focus on the discursive aspects of subject formation—linguistic sign, literary manifesto, photographic image, commodity form/aesthetics, which comprise the project’s chapters—and on Dada’s performative sabotage and subversion of them. In addition to highlighting commonalities between Dadaist works, artists, and chapters previously imagined disparate, the book shows how Dada simultaneously prefigured structuralist theories of subject formation and pre-performed post-structuralist critiques of those theories.

By: Brandon Pelcher
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2023 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 447g
ISBN: 9783031266096
ISBN 10: 3031266099
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 12 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Taking Dada and Ideology Seriously.- Chapter 1. “A Constant Problem and Preoccupation”: Dada and/as Sign.- Chapter 2. “A Spectre is Haunting Dada”: Dada and/as Manifesto.- Chapter 3. “We Need Only Take Scissors”: Dada and/as Photographic Image.- Chapter 4. “So Its Useful Significance Disappeared”: Dada and/as Commodity.- Conclusion.

J. Brandon Pelcher is Lecturer of German at Tufts University in Boston (USA).