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UNINTELLIGIBLE. That which cannot be understood.
2. When a law, a contract, or will, is unintelligible, it has no effect whatever. Vide Construction, and the authorities there referred to.

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The ascendancy of surface and complete unintelligibility of depth goes some way toward explaining why art practices, once comfortably confined by conceptual and even formal boundaries, now spread ravenously outward, indifferent to locale, staging themselves serially across a vast horizontal plain of interchangeable opportunities: The museum, a storefront, your bedroom, online, even a toilet--all blossom as sites of meaning when the artist arrives, bringing his beaming face with him. Depth perception: Matthew Stadler on Red76 by Stadler, Matthew / Artforum International In other words, as Jonathan Culler observes, complaints about obscurity and unintelligibility are "generally complaints about a philosophical mode: a mode of thought one finds uncongenial, concerns of which one doesn't see the pertinence, so that the writing seems pointless and pretentious in its flaunting of specialized language. Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Morrison, Kevin A. / Radical Teacher Thus, as in Alurista's poem above, the interplay of intelligibility and unintelligibility ends with an assertion of the latter. Performing Lo Chicano by Belgrad, Daniel / MELUS More results

The ascendancy of surface and complete unintelligibility of depth goes some way toward explaining why art practices, once comfortably confined by conceptual and even formal boundaries, now spread ravenously outward, indifferent to locale, staging themselves serially across a vast horizontal plain of interchangeable opportunities: The museum, a storefront, your bedroom, online, even a toilet--all blossom as sites of meaning when the artist arrives, bringing his beaming face with him.

Depth perception: Matthew Stadler on Red76 by Stadler, Matthew / Artforum International

In other words, as Jonathan Culler observes, complaints about obscurity and unintelligibility are "generally complaints about a philosophical mode: a mode of thought one finds uncongenial, concerns of which one doesn't see the pertinence, so that the writing seems pointless and pretentious in its flaunting of specialized language.

Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Morrison, Kevin A. / Radical Teacher

Thus, as in Alurista's poem above, the interplay of intelligibility and unintelligibility ends with an assertion of the latter.

Performing Lo Chicano by Belgrad, Daniel / MELUS

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