RosettaStone: CRAFT A primary, secondary, and annotated source reader for functional craft. By: Randi O'Brien

This is an annotated evaluation of the following:

Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture. by Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker, “Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture” in Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft, ed. M. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen, 24-34 (Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2004)

Reviewed by Randi O’Brien

Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture by the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies at UCLA Johanna Drucker, considers the production of values and the values of production. The author presents a disorienting and technically backwards article for an audience interested in objects and meaning. She attepmts to convey a shift in attitude towards affectivity and entropy which the author believes is “how to make art count [and] how to make it show up on the cultural scene. Drucker writes a sloppy article that take well over fifty percent of her article to summarize her main thesis which is unclear and whishy washy. My overall impression is that the author has come to her topic point, thesis, and conclusion in her last four paragraphs

In this article, the author has relied on linguistic artifice to support her article. Though lacking clarity and efficiency of language, and word choice, as well as a defining and direct argument the article does have some concise sentences’ that recollect the article to a general foundation, and in terms of future improvements if this article were to be stripped down to the core topics and address in a logical or well articulated format the potential of the argument could be better understood and valued.