Duende.1.1: a 20th century, modernist, tactically vague aesthetic descriptor whose effective purpose was to attribute a non-categorical, non-assessable, non-confirmable pseudo-occult quality to a work or author, in order both to mark that work, author, or affiliated group for social distinction and to legitimate the fetish of author, text, technique. Descriptors like duende are pseudo-concepts
Published on October 26, 2009 23:20