Duchamp in mimesis*

Knjiga Uršule Berlot Duchamp in mimesis je v vsakem pogledu izjemno delo, ki v enem samem zamahu naveže tradicionalni problem mimesis temeljna iskanja modernizma, ki je bil modernizem prav po tem, vsaj tako je videti, da se je napravil križ čez mimesis. Vendar, če mimesis ne razumemo v tradicionalnem smislu posnemanja ampak jo osredinimo na mrežo "razlik in ponavljanj", če jo preoblikujemo v "diferencialno mimesis", potem jo napotimo na premislek razmika, minimalne razlike in podvojitve samega umetniškega dela - prav na to pa meri sloviti pojem "infratanko", ki ga je psotavil Duchamp v srž svojega dela in ki lahko služi kot rdeča nit novim analizam. (prof. dr. Mladen Dolar)

Uršula Berlot´s Duchamp and Mimesis is, in all respects, an outstanding work, which single-handly ties the traditional problem of mimesis to the foundational issues of medernism, which happens to be modernism precisely by virtue of its breaking away from mimesis - or it would seem. However, if mimesis is not understood in a traditional sense of imitation, but defined through a net of "differential mimesis", then a thought is directed to a separation, a minimal difference and a doubling of the artistic work itself. And this is precisely what the famous notion of infrathin aims at, the notion which Duchamp identified as the central role in his work and which can serve as a connecting thread in new analyses.