De la méthode triolectique dans ses applications en situlogie générale
De la méthode triolectique dans ses applications en situlogie générale is a small but charged theoretical pamphlet by Asger Jorn. It presents the “triolectical” method as an alternative to dialectical thinking and links that speculation to the Situationist imagination of play, space and conflict. Its material form is modest — 11 pages, stapled white wrappers, diagrams — but its importance lies precisely in its autonomous publication. Jorn’s text emerged from the broader context of Sauvagerie, Barbarie, Civilisation and the study of signs engraved on churches in Eure and Calvados, but here it is detached as a separate theoretical object. The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism in Aarhus functions as Jorn’s idiosyncratic laboratory for art-historical sabotage, comparative visual culture and anti-academic research. This copy is not a deluxe edition and bears no numbering, signature or original graphic work. Its value lies in its rarity, its early autonomous publication form and its close relation to Jorn’s Situationist thought.
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Asger Jorn
De la méthode triolectique dans ses applications en situlogie générale
1964 | Aarhus
This first separate edition of Jorn’s triolectical text is a rare small printed work of great theoretical density. It preserves the passage from Situationist vocabulary toward Jorn’s own ludic and anti-dialectical models. In its sobriety, it is a sharp document of avant-garde thought in working form.
De la méthode triolectique dans ses applications en situlogie générale is a small but charged theoretical pamphlet by Asger Jorn. It presents the “triolectical” method as an alternative to dialectical thinking and links that speculation to the Situationist imagination of play, space and conflict. Its material form is modest — 11 pages, stapled white wrappers, diagrams — but its importance lies precisely in its autonomous publication. Jorn’s text emerged from the broader context of Sauvagerie, Barbarie, Civilisation and the study of signs engraved on churches in Eure and Calvados, but here it is detached as a separate theoretical object. The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism in Aarhus functions as Jorn’s idiosyncratic laboratory for art-historical sabotage, comparative visual culture and anti-academic research. This copy is not a deluxe edition and bears no numbering, signature or original graphic work. Its value lies in its rarity, its early autonomous publication form and its close relation to Jorn’s Situationist thought.
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Unnumbered copy of the first separate edition; no deluxe issue, signature or original graphic work is recorded.
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The text sets out Jorn’s idea of “triolectics”: a method based not on two opposing poles, but on three forces or positions that set one another in motion. Instead of classical dialectics, in which conflict tends toward synthesis, Jorn proposes a more dynamic model suited to play, strategy and social space. The diagrams visualize the relations between positions and make the theory both abstract and playful. The term “situlogy” points to a general study of situations, in which action, place, tension and change are thought together. The pamphlet is therefore not a narrative work, but a theoretical-poetic instrument. It shows how Jorn attempts to bring political, artistic and ludic concepts together in a compact method.
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