Like many social critics before them, the Dadaists were anti-crisis and anti-war, but instead of critiquing the conditions of WWI as Homer had critiqued the Trojan War in the Iliad, the Dadaists’ focus was on anti-art and anti-meaning. The dada practice was to abandon intentionality - that very human faculty that allows us to knowingly kill each other – and leave artistic decisions to chance.
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