Some questions about the readings over the past semester:

1. Lacan and Jeff Wall. Seriously confused here. I understand the argument Ross is making in theory, I think, about beauty creating desire and this leads to Lacan’s theories about desire as creating subjects etc. But where does Wall fit in here?
2. I was wondering about Crimp’s advocacy of lateral appropriation and distaste for historical appropriation, is this at odds with Rancier’s advocacy for borrowing operations from separate media? This strikes me as a kind of historical operation.
3. Any ideas about where photography’s expanded field will expand to from here? Is there a relationship between technology and the expanding of the photographic field? Digital, networks, etc?
4. Thinking about exuberance and exhaustion and the pressure to perform how are we to incorporate this into our art making. Should we more consciously defying the pressure to perform? Is it too much of a risk?