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The Milgram Re-enactment (2002)

Essays on Rod Dickinson's re-enactment of Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment

The Milgram re-enactment. Essays on Rod Dickinson's re-enactment of Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment, 2004

Steve Rushton (Ed.)
2004
Design: Sacha Davison Lunt
English — 72 pp — 134 x 155 mm
ISBN 90-72076-16-8

The book about The Milgram re-enactment was made as part of a research project by Steve Rushton in the Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie. The three essays contained in the book ask a series of questions about the re-enactment and the original experiment:

Vivienne Gaskin: Subjects in Search of an Author
Vivienne asks: What kind of transformation takes place when a laboratory is blown through time and space and deposited in a gallery?

Tom McCarthy: Between Pain and Nothing
Tom asks: To what degree does the re-enactment relate to the classic form of tragic drama?

Steve Rushton: Agentic States
Steve asks: To what degree is Milgram's claim that the results of the experiment are an illustration of Hannah Arndt's phrase ‘the banality of evil’ valid?

Sacha Davison Lunt and Ben Lunt: Frame by Frame
The book is designed by Sacha Davison Lunt and also contains a photo essay of the re-enactment which includes sections of the transcripts of the dialogue between the Teacher, the Learner and the Experimenter.

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Look inside:

Tom McCarthy: Between Pain and Nothing Sacha Davison Lunt and Ben Lunt: Frame by Frame Introduction by Steve Rushton Vivienne Gaskin: Subjects in Search of an Author
Synopsis


Performance images


Installation images


Video clip (6:23 mins)


Dedication to Graeme Edler


Articles on the Re-enactment:
Judith Rodenbeck:
Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn
| PDF

Bruno Latour:
Some Experiments in Art and Politics



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Essays on Rod Dickinson's re-enactment of Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment