
Published online:
24 August 2015
Published in print:
20 January 2011
Online ISBN:
9781452946580
Print ISBN:
9780816667505
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PR Presence of Junk PR Presence of Junk
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Pantiq Philology of Junk Pantiq Philology of Junk
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PRE Mapping Junk PRE Mapping Junk
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PR’ Biomolecular junk PR’ Biomolecular junk
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PRM The Junkness of Culture PRM The Junkness of Culture
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Chapter
Introduction, or a Set of Promoters: Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, and Vik Muniz Piling Them Up
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Pages
7–26
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Published:January 2011
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Bardini, Thierry, 'or a Set of Promoters: Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, and Vik Muniz Piling Them Up', Junkware (Minneapolis, MN , 2011; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 24 Aug. 2015), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816667505.003.0002, accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This introductory chapter provides a background to the connection between junk and late-modern humans. It talks about the contemporary art of Vik Muniz, who plays the history of art and re-creates past masterpieces in heteroclite media. Photographs of Mona Lisa in peanut butter or Sisyphus in junk established Muniz as a leading contemporary artist and as a maker of “the worst possible illusion.” This chapter also analyzes junk DNA or the noncoding DNA found in the human genome, and relates junk DNA to Samuel Butler’s analogy of the inversion between chicken and egg, which implies that “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
Keywords:
junk, late-modern humans, Vik Muniz, heteroclite media, contemporary artist, junk DNA, noncoding DNA, human genome, Samuel Butler
Subject
Philosophy
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