Joselit considers the possibility
of critical and artistic practices that may counter such failures
of representation, instead staging a refusal or representation — a refusal perhaps nowhere more potent than in the performances
of Pope.L, whether the artist is literally ingesting and expelling information, in Eating the Wall Street Journal, 1991 - 2000, or, in Foraing (Asphyxia Version), 1993-95/2008, covering his head with a white
plastic bag that he clutches tightly below his chin.