Abstract:
In his essay “Sing of the new invasion”, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek suggests that “the way
to test a great work of art is to ask how it survives decontextualization, transposition into a new context.”
He claims that “one good definition of a classic is that it functions like the eyes of God in an Orthodox
icon: no matter where you stand in the room, they seem to be looking at you.
