Meaning in postmodern installations shifts as each element recontextualizes the others

Evidence

Such is, at any rate, the way in which the reading of the Gober installation imposes itself: as a constant movement from one item to another in which each term, as it confronts one of the other three, finds its value and its meaning subtly or not so subtly modified. … Thus it is only apparently “logical” or “natural” to begin with the frame itself — house, dwelling — which as a built space and a habitation, a product of society and of culture, stands in most immediate opposition to the mound, itself now marking the place of Nature in a host of seventeenth-century pastoral or Shakespearean senses. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 393

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the Gober installation functions as a relational system where each term’s meaning depends on its confrontation with the others — a concrete instance of postmodern meaning-structure.
• XREF: Parallel to the earlier chapter’s treatment of depthlessness and the postmodern schema of levels, and to deconstruction’s claim that meaning is differential rather than fixed. — connects to: Philosophical synthesis means recomposition and recycling, like synthetic materials. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1265