For many commentators, Carry’s work is primarily about the subject. Insofar as Crary’s target is the “observer”, “one who sees within a prescribed set of possibilities, one who is embedded in a system of conventions and limitations” (Crary 2001: 6), they are of course correct. For Crary, technology is not a separate realm but an …
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Crary’s constellation of objects
Jonathan Crary is interested in the history of visuality and scopic apparatuses but in some ways he is equally interested in the ways in which that story has been told, in its periodisation. For Crary, as for Martin Jay, the tendency to homogenise or render linear regimes or technologies not only needs to be challenged …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-02-06
The Internationale Daily is out! # The best protest signs in Egypt. http://chzb.gr/gQW80G /via @dtapscott # The #birkbeckmedia Daily is out! ▸ Top stories today via @internationale # Thing of the day: 05.02.11 http://flic.kr/p/9fLqVR # The Internationale Daily is out! # http://rww.to/fjCu1f Scopic apparatuses in action. #olympicarcades # The Net always disturbs, disrupts any old …
ANT and media archaeology: doing the same thing
One can explore protocol from a philosophical point of view. Indeed my critique of existing accounts of protocol has been that they do not explore the ontological status of the protocol object within its networks. Latour of course would take issue with this approach, one that tries to extend Actor-network theory into a philosophical project. …
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More Tommy Cooper than David Blaine
The show looked a little modest. Not really an exhibition and not quite a performance. A display certainly but hardly a blockbuster. But it was certainly large-scale, worldwide some would say. It wasn’t technically difficult to put together. Just a laptop and a camera. He half wanted it to be big, loud, an event somewhere …
Imaging not image; hacking not hack; programming not programme
When people hear that I am working on a ‘practice-research’ PhD the first question is usually what the ‘subject’ is and the second what my ‘practice’ is. It is clear from the literature around practice-research, often built around the case study (Barrett and Bolt 2010) that the “creative work”, the object is integral to practice-research’s …
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