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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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in keeping with the phenomenon, as decidedly ongoing

1. Does the highlighted sentence mean "albeit a kind of position consolidation that the book itself believes is in progress, just like the phenomenon itself that is in progress itself"?

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His book Relational Aesthetics amounts to the consolidation of a position – albeit one that would regard itself, in keeping with the phenomenon, as decidedly ‘ongoing’– that has been promoted since the early 1990s via the magazine Documents sur L’art (of which he was an editor).
  

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I'm not sure whether "one" is intended to refer to the position or the consolidation. " ought to be describing the same thing, and that that thing ought to be the position and not the consolidation. Literally it is saying that the position/consolidation "regards itself" in a certain way.

— GPY

  • I'm not sure whether "one" is intended to refer to the position or the consolidation.
  • " ought to be describing the same thing, and that that thing ought to be the position and not the consolidation.
  • Literally it is saying that the position/consolidation "regards itself" in a certain way.
  • This does not make literal sense (since a position is not a sentient being), but is a figure of speech.
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I'm not sure whether "one" is intended to refer to the position or the consolidation. The use of "albeit" seems to me to suggest the latter, and yet it also seems to me that "that has been promoted ..." ought to be describing the same thing, and that that thing ought to be the position and not the consolidation.

Literally it is saying that the position/consolidation "regards itself" in a
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but what is your impression of the rest of it "in keeping with the phenomenon, as decidedly ongoing"? Does it say that "the position itself says that it is still in progress"? But how about "in keeping with the phenomenon"?
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The position/consolidation regards itself as very much "ongoing", i.e. in progress, which is consistent with or matching with the phenomenon, which is also very much in progress.
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Is it also a possibility to say "a consolidation/position that the book itself says is in progress just like the phenomenon that is in progress itself? I mean is it possible to refer the "itself" to the book instead of consolidation/position?
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red appleI mean is it possible to refer the "itself" to the book instead of consolidation/position?
No, I don't think so.
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