Towards an object-oriented photography… again

Following Ian Bogost’s thoughts about Winogrand and mine about Frank, some more half-baked musings about object-oriented photography. Bogost and I are in agreement about an object-oriented sensibility or at least sensitivity in some photographers. For him it is Winogrand’s taking photographs to see what the world looks like in photographs. For me it’s Frank’s panoply …

The JPEG object in theory… part 2 – overmining and undermining

As I have sought to show in The JPEG Object in The Literature, a view of the digital object built around ideas of relationality, processuality and potentiality has been a pervasive and, in many way, positive theme running through the development of software and critical code studies. This project’s practice and research takes a different …

Tweets for the week :: 2011-09-18

The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 # Always happy to be found. http://t.co/AJNqMMnV /via @the_eco_thought # Westfield Stratford City IS modern Britain # The Grand Project 3 http://t.co/03jtmI8C # The Grand Project 2 http://t.co/He4nVlq9 # The Grand Project http://t.co/Dxj7daNZ # RT: Somehow just now discovering @Internationale's object-oriented photography PhD project, http://t.co/fk5HR8H0 /via @ibogost # http://t.co/XBfhLOne …

Half way to being baked

After an interesting Twitter discussion with Robert Jackson (@parallax00) and Tero Karppi (@karppi) as well as beginning to read Martin Weller’s The Digital Scholar), reading Nigel Thrift’s thoughts on blogademics… some (half-baked) thoughts. This site(blog) doesn’t attract many comments. I wouldn’t say it’s crowd sourcing my research, let alone my thesis. It provides (to follow …