Abstract
The essay provides a critical assessment of the debates concerning the concepts of fake and original (authentic) in the context of semiotics (Ch.S. Peirce, T. de Lauretis, U. Eco, M. Bal), philosophy (N. Goodman, J. Baudrillard, S. Žižek), art theory (W Benjamin, I. Haywood, N. Bryson), history (C. Ginzburg). It is an attempt to represent the problem of reproduction of cultural artefacts as a multifaceted issue which embraces the whole series of related notions (fake, forgery, imitation, reproduction, replication, remake, copy, pastiche, etc.) along with their different meanings and implications for various cultural practices (fine arts, history, architecture, cinema, social and cultural ‘apparatuses’ of identification). The main aim of the text is to provide an interdisciplinary frame of interpretation of the phenomenon of forgery, to reveal how aesthetic judgments on the originality (and aura) of the work of art are determined by economical and political factors and to show how the 'ideology of original' is related to the power-knowledge system and the issues of political economy in contemporary Western culture. Semiotics (particularly, in U. Eco’s version) is chosen here as the most promising and efficient tool for the analysis of this complex phenomenon.
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Most read articles by the same author(s)
-
Audronė Žukauskaitė,
The Metastases of Enjoyment: Psychoanalysis, Ethics and the Critique of Ideology
,
Problemos: Vol. 56 (1999): Problemos
-
Bonifacas Šidiškis,
On the Contents of Musical Work
,
Problemos: Vol. 35 (1986): Problemos
-
Vanzeta Ribakovienė,
Morality in The Social Context
,
Problemos: Vol. 29 (1983): Problemos
-
Zenonas Norkus,
On Positive and Negative Altruism
,
Problemos: Vol. 47 (1995): Problemos
-
Danutė Bacevičiūtė,
What is the Meaning of Immanuel Kant’s Notion of the Human Being as the Ultimate End of Nature?
,
Problemos: 2020: Problemos Supplement
-
Jana S. Rošker Rošker,
LI ZEHOU’S VIEW ON CHINESE MODERNIZATION AND THE PRECARIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARX AND CONFUCIUS
,
Problemos: 2016: Problemos Supplement
-
Pranciškus Gricius,
Toward a New Theory of Moderate Contingentism: Individuals just are Realized Essences
,
Problemos: Vol. 102 (2022): Problemos
-
Audronė Žukauskaitė,
J. DELEUZE’O SKIRTUMO SAMPRATA
,
Problemos: Vol. 74 (2008): Problemos
-
Tomas Kiauka,
AUGUSTINO LAIKO SAMPRATOS ONTOLOGINĖS IR TEOLOGINĖS YPATYBĖS
,
Problemos: Vol. 70 (2006): Problemos
-
Tomas Kačerauskas,
Civil Disobedience: Individual Liberty and Public Order
,
Problemos: Vol. 76 (2009): Problemos