Phenomenal indistinguishability in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Traffic
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Traffic, Kenneth Goldsmith, Arthur Danto, indistinguishability, ontologyAbstract
The work Traffic, by the North-American author Kenneth Goldsmith, transcribes 24 hours of a New York traffic radio station right before a holiday weekend. As an anguishing work of hyperrealism, it can be understood within the tradition of North-American conceptual and pop art. As such, it places before literary studies the problem of a material indistinguishability between work of art and everyday object. Through a detailed examination of Arthur Danto’s philosophic writings, regarding the thesis of a phenomenal indistinguishability, the present article means to analyze the implications that such a theory of art may have on the understanding of Traffic and which are the consequences of understanding it as a literary work of art.
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