Acronyms that contain the term subjectile 

Subjectile

The subjectile is kind of grounding used in industrial and artistic painting. The word has been used by Antonin Artaud and Jacques Derrida commented its use. The subjectile is seen as a theory, not a fact; as a theory the subjectile is a tool that can be employed to analyse art objects to generate hypotheses concerning the relationship between subject and object in art. Derrida mentions that the word 'subjectile' appears in an essay on Pierre Bonnard, published in 1921, which Artaud probably has read. The subjectile refers to Bonnard’s use of cardboard for painting. The Concise French dictionary translates 'subjectile' as 'Art: support'. Without a support and ground the subject of a painting could not exist as it would fall away. Derrida argues that Artaud's subjectile is both ground and a support. It is stretched out, extended, beyond, through and behind the subject, it is not alien to the subject, yet ‘It has two situations’. Derrida holds that the subjectile functions as a hypothesis, and is a subjectile itself. ‘Subjectile, the word or the thing, can take the place of the subject or of the object – being neither one nor the other.’

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