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("These days, perceptions of authenticity are at a premium even as authenticity itself becomes ever more meaningless").
"These days, perceptions of authenticity are at a premium even as authenticity itself becomes ever more meaningless," Patrick Neate writes.
And in a city whose public architecture often resembles a revolving rack of postcards, well-designed propaganda may well pass for authenticity itself.
But long before any of this, it was Marcel Duchamp who simplified everything by turning the certificate of authenticity itself, and by extension the artist's signature, into art: you composed it, signed it and sold it, or, in his case, paid your dentist with it.
Another frequently disputed question is whether, given that moral values have no ultimate foundation, a definite morality can nevertheless be derived from the norm of authenticity itself.
In his final work, F for Fake, Orson Welles evolves a charming history of art forgery into a groundbreaking metadocumentary, interrogating both the nature of truth in cinema and authenticity itself.
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However, some have also floated the idea that perhaps Trump's authenticity is itself an act.
Custom stamps are sold through four vendors, and feature a bar code to validate their authenticity; the Postal Service itself does not make them.
It is most effective, most moving, when it surrenders all claims to authenticity and offers itself as a febrile "dream of those who are no longer here".
For some good reasons, though, and some sentimental ones, too, you stop questioning the authenticity of Woodstock itself when you discover why Kopple chose a certain couple as interview subjects.
The two basic possibilities of human existing (from the Latin ex and sistere, "standing out from") are those in which Dasein either comes to its self (called authenticity) or loses itself (called inauthenticity); Dasein is inauthentic, for example, when it lets the possibilities of the choice for its own "ek-sisting" be given to it by others instead of deciding for itself.
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