Abstract
One of the most powerful instruments for exclusion in the arts is the argument of quality. As a binary alternative between good and bad, it holds such power because the criteria are obscure, implicit and shifting. In its original meaning a notion of multifariousness meaning ‘character, disposition, particular property, feature, kind’, it has mutated to an instrument of generalised binary division. This relegates any Other to the function of the confirming opposite of the Self: there is no ‘good’ without an opposed reference point of a ‘bad’.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 92-95 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Glissando Magazine |
| Volume | Diversity. Curating |
| Issue number | #43 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |