A Stream of Consciousness at Stroud Museum On the Occasion of the Exhibition: ‘Artefact or Fiction?’

A Stream of Consciousness at Stroud Museum

On the Occasion of the Exhibition: ‘Artefact or Fiction?’

A stream of consciousness, a ream of conscience:

Art, artifice, artefact, artificer, fiction, faction,

Manufacturer, artisan, artisanal, fashion, zeitgeist,

Ornament, use, utility, Bentham, Gradgrind,

Truth, Keats, beauty, all ye know on earth,

Writ in water,

Illusion, allusion, the Age of Enlightenment,

Angels in the trees, William Blake,

‘Mind-forg’d manacles’,

The Age of Reason,

Induco et educo,

Positivism, empiricism, rationalism,

Kant, Hegel, Marx,

Phenomenology, Psycho-geography,

A postcard.

Fox Talbot, portraiture,

Reproduction, mass production, Warhol,

Subject, object, objectification, collection,

Museums, cabinets of curiosities, fetishisation,

Thomas Hardy, LS Lowry,

A store of value,

Mystification, religion, false consciousness,

Heritage, class, capitalism, agrarianism,

Forge, forger, Joe Gargery, Miss Havisham, Pip,

Clio, Cronos, harpe, sickle, lyre, liar,

Magic, logic, logarithm, algorithm, rhythm,

Metaphor, illusion, allusion,

Signs, systems, semiology,

Forge, build, create, establish, fashion, shape,

Frame, construct, invent, devise, contrive,

Fake, copy, reproduce, imitate, counterfeit,

Feign, falsify, coin, delude,

Conjure,

Educo non induco,

Linear Narrative and Meta-Narrative,

A stream of consciousness and a ream of conscience.

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