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Transformed Strangely: Lyotardian Indeterminacy in John Cage’s Child of Tree

Anthony Gritten
Publisher: Journals Gateway
Leonardo (2023) 56 (1): 45–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02297
Published: 01 February 2023
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Abstract
The author sketches a Lyotardian reading of John Cage’s plant pieces of the mid-1970s. Given that at the time both Jean-François Lyotard and Cage were concerned with working through Marcel Duchamp’s multifarious legacies, the author uses Lyotard’s writings on Duchamp to unpack the operation of indeterminacy in Cage’s ecological events.
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