The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @mckenziewark @rodgers_scott @pennywilson @rhizomedotorg # Sent from my iPad. http://t.co/0jrS50hj # 'if we sweep it let us keep it! ' #Ows (via @doctorow) The new: "beneath the cobblestones…" # I remember when @seancubitt used to demand that his undergrad students watched Citizen Kane on …
Author Archives: praxis
Photographer as object not subject
I photograph not to represent but to encounter and experience object-connection. I photograph not as the privileged subject-photographer or in order to create the privileged photo-object (the decisive moment) but within a flat non-correlationist photographic ontology. I look to work with this philosophy by photographing a democracy of objects, connecting with objects within objects. In …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-10-10
The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @rhizomedotorg @paulctayla @onticologist @rodgers_scott # Thing of the day: 08.10.11 http://t.co/963kDYJG # And as if by magic… http://t.co/3znQJXd8 # http://t.co/HSee082m what was that thing abot 'small is beautiful'? Chapeau @karppi # So proud of Ms Internationale, @pennywilson and her TED, misspelt my own name. …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-10-02
Thing of the day: 02.10.11 http://t.co/WRS48oqk # The one thing wrong with the iPad: autumn morning, by the river, time to read and write. Invisible screen even in the shade. # RT @karppi: I'm looking for academic articles re. #Facebook & data mining. Any ideas? #datamining Let me know if you find any Tero! # …
The sensual and real objects and qualities… once more with feeling
Why should theoretically informed or even philosophical writing be inaccessible? Why should it be unclear? As a journalist and editor, clarity was the most important thing. It was what got readers to buy the paper. When I began teaching I always used to tell my students that if their writing wasn’t clear, chances were it …
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Object-oriented photography and vibrant matter
My photography is object-oriented. This OOPh, as I call it, is informed by the work of Harman but also by that of Jane Bennett who, in Vibrant Matter (2010a) identifies an agentic capacity in material objects1 When she starts from “one large men’s black plastic work glove; one dense mat of oak pollen; one unblemished …
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