ABSTRACT
In his introduction to Marcel Duchamp, Notes, Paul Matisse observed: “Marcel used to say that explanations explained nothing. Making his installation Etant donnes public only after his death is perhaps Duchamp’s greatest expression of this belief because such an act made sure there would never be an explanation. Duchamp uses the discourse of art to challenge us to see that our reality is more than the object-oriented relationships given to us in consumer culture – ready-made choices that have built into them the assumption of completeness. Duchampian accelerationism takes the realities of the object as conceived and experienced within consumer capitalism as a starting point for rethinking the practice of art in modern and contemporary culture, a critical project defined in and through the readymade as a mode of production. Duchampian accelerationism is the creative use of ordinary and everyday object-based relations as a means of production capable of maximizing the expenditure of individual critical judgment.
