This book is a significant re-thinking of Duchamp's importance in the twenty-first century, taking seriously the readymade as a critical exploration of object-oriented relations under the conditions of consumer capitalism.

Julian Jason Haladyn is an art historian, cultural theorist and professor at OCAD University, Canada.

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Acknowledgments

1 Apropos

2 Readymade as object

3 Capitalist accelerations

4 Aesthetics and the object

5 Comb

6 Speeding up language

7 Challenges to origineity

8 Consequences of a Duchampian accelerationism [1]

9 The choice economy

10 Readymade as black hole

11 Consequences of a Duchampian accelerationism [2]

12 Tzanck Check

13 Note on a readymade economics

14 Missed creative acts

15 Remade readymades

16 We Will Wait

17 An accelerated Duchamp