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The RAW file demands ‘processing’ in a form of digital darkroom before the information as data can be visible as an image. Without that protocol/software processing the RAW data is unvisible. Even to open a RAW file in an image editing or image-organising application is to render the RAW data as image, unprocessed, approximate, default …
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I am a photographer. I photograph things, objects, material nonsubjects as Jane Bennett calls them (2010:ix). I understand these things from an object-oriented point-of-view, as actants in the world, as vibrant quasi-agents or forces (Bennett) that exceed their relations (Harman) – that are somehow more than the field of accidents, qualities and relations with which …
We know that email is not transient or even purely virtual. Whether it is the real material effects when the Send button is pressed, the streams across Blackberry and iPhone windows leaving traces in social and cultural practices or the archives accessible to employers or partners via search, email does not disappear. Google’s engineering founders …
Having established that jpeg can be treated as an object, it becomes necessary to explore what characterises an object from Harman’s point of view. What characteristics does jpeg as object have that enable us to understand its nature and its workings? For Harman, objects must be seen as beyond accidents, beyond relations and beyond qualities{Harman …
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Note. This post has been redrafted and expanded here. Before one can engage with an object-oriented reading of software, explore the ways in which software connects in the heart of other objects or address the infinite archive of images and data trails in terms of an account of the fourfold nature of objects, we need to …
Sullivan and Smith and Dean can be seen as working within the tradition of the Hegelian dialectic. Smith and Dean’s iterative cycle obviously owes much to a view of thesis, antithesis and synthesis[ref]It must be noted of course that Hegel did not use these terms. They were coined by his commentator Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus{%Chalybäus 1854}[/ref]. …
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