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1. Symbolic Weight

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   The Paradox of Intentional Weightlessness
   A counter-movement in late 20th-century conceptual art explored "intentional weightlessness." Artists attempted to produce objects whose only symbolic content was the assertion of their own lack of history or meaning. However, critics observed that the act of asserting weightlessness itself became a highly charged signifier, ironically granting the object a new, meta-symbolic …