HYLAND
We inhabit an age of what Freud called over-
determination, in which a product of the psyche is
caused not simply by another thing, but by everything,
when a single cause would be sufficient to explain a given
phenomenon. (Wittgenstein came to a similar conclusion
about the real world, describing it, not as a woven fabric,
but as a felt, in which fibers and materials are pressed
together so closely as to make causal relationships
impossible to trace.) a At New York's Pulse Art Fair,
on Sunday May 10th, the many wonderful objects,
images and apparitions testified to over-determination:
by technology, religion, politics and last but not least
aesthetics, which today encompasses a wider, denser
range of standards and sensibilities than ever before in
the history of art.
Douglas Beube's Kylix; The Stuff of Tho
