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Shock and the senseless in Dada and Fluxus
Introduction: shock of the senseless -- The notion of shock in early twentieth-century Europe -- Shock and urbanity: Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel -- Shock and World War I: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud -- Shock and tactility in Walter Benjamin -- Shock and the senseless in Dada -- Dada's notion of art and its sociocultural context -- Senselessness, the new, and the "shock of the unintelligible" -- The senseless in Walter Benjamin's concept of shock -- Shock and the senseless in Fluxus -- The sociocultural context of Fluxus -- From politics to a worldview: transforming the senseless -- Art as perception -- Shock and boredom: Fluxus's "senseless perception" -- Conclusion: communicating the void.
Includes bibliographical references and index.