In Cafe – Beaufort, South Carolina (image-object) an African-American baby crawls towards their blanket or changing mat across a wooden floor. The room has a table with a white tablecloth and two mismatched wooden chairs. Two windows are bleached out in the sun which casts panes of light across the floor. The light also falls …
Category Archives: objects
To be Frank
The Robert Frank who produced his paper road movie The Americans was an object-oriented photographer. His was a flat ontology of object-actants. His documentary was of people yes, but also flags, jukeboxes, crosses, cigars, hats and cars – a Latour litany of human, non human and unhuman objects vibrant, doing things in the world. Those …
EcoTone 1: I object, it certainly does matter
Following Robert and Paul‘s lead, this is my abstract for the EcoTone event: Recent movements towards a renewed focus on objects within philosophy are far more than just an intellectual fad or even metaphysical debate. Object-oriented ontology has the potential to be a radical critical method. Its stress on the actuality of objects, connected and nested within …
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Software tunnels through the rags ‘n refuse
Text of talk given at the Platform Politics conference in Cambridge 13.05.11 It took New York police officer, William Barker two hours to find Homer Collyer dead in his apartment in March 1947. Barker had to crawl through a window into a second-story bedroom, burrow his way through newspaper bundles, empty cardboard boxes lashed together …
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Just checking in
Not sure if anyone’s following this stream but the rags ‘n refuse are running a little offline at the moment as I build a lit review. The fragments will return as I begin to muse more on object oriented photography – the next and fun bit.
Tracking objects
The fact that the iPhone tracks a user’s movements and saves that data to an unencrypted file on the user’s handset and the computer and potentially in the Cloud is more than a matter of privacy. It is a matter of objects, and object-oriented approaches to media can offer productive ways of exploring the implications …