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Hubert Damisch's Duchamp Defense is mapping the artist's biography and creative becoming onto theoretical and intellectual landscape which developed in the beginning of the 20th century. Damisch suggests that, whether consciously or not, Duchamp soaked the most progressive ideas of his time to go ahead of it and to become one the most innovative and original artist of the century. Among various theories like that of von Neumann, Damisch highlights the apparent parallels between theoretical ways of Duchamp (e.g. theory of endgames, as well as some of his art works) with published in 1908 General course of linguistics by ...