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Author Archives: praxis
Thoughts on the viewer
The “imag(in)ing apparatus” discussed here, with which the jpeg imag(in)ing apparatus is enfolded, includes the ‘window’ the screen and frame (Friedberg 2006) component ‘through’ which the jpeg imag(in)ings appear visible and the RAW imag(in)ings remain unvisible. This window component is perhaps best thought of as a viewer, paralleling the screen on the back of the …
Paper proposal… in process: photography and ontology
This paper seeks to approach the philosophical questions around digital photography through the lens of ‘speculative realism’. Taking Graham Harman’s reading of Bruno Latour’s Irreductions as a starting point and developments characterised as the “speculative turn” in continental philosophy as a framework, I seek to account for the enfolded position of the digital image and …
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A tale of two cameras and a broken apparatus
In effect there are two camera/apparatuses. The first is immaterial but not virtual. Although it cannot be held or mounted on a tripod, although it ‘withdraws from view’ that does not make it any less real an object or any less material. Its power to imag(in)e as well as its alliances with other actants in …
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James Burke’s Connections and media archaeology
In the 1970s James Burke hosted a TV series, Connections where the audience was taken on a journey from one technological object to another (Burke 1978). The programme started with Burke presenting an unlikely partnership: the manorial system and the carburettor for instance. What could be the connection, the audience was asked and then the …
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Zielinski: geographies, biographies, archaeologies
Siegfried Zielinski’s exploration of “hearing and seeing” through an archaeology of scopic and sonic apparatuses (2006) includes the sort of engravings and diagrams of gadgets and devices that pepper Crary and Jay’s work. Here too the apparatuses for investigating seeing and hearing open up questions of subjectivity and biopower that Zielinski argues resonate in contemporary …
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