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Category Archives: academia

Is there such a thing as a mundane object? “Art at large” and the counter-factual objet trouvé.

12-May-12

Thats the title of an essay I’ve written for a pamphlet collection of essays – it alludes to some missed confrontations between Greenberg and Duchamp. The pamphlet in question will be distributed in the exhibition ‘Field Static : A Group Show about the Object‘ curated by the wonderful duo of Devin King and Caroline Picard [...]

My Furtherfield article on the New Aesthetic

17-Apr-12

Bogost managed to link to it before I did – I’m about to respond to his last point now. HERE‘s the Furtherfield article.

Byens Digitale Liv

12-Apr-12

It’s a weird moment. I came home from work to find this on the floor (well not this, but the package it was in). It contains the very first physical manifestation of text, co-authored with Geoff Cox. I don’t care if its in Danish and I can’t read it – it’s a good moment to [...]

Some questions about Actor Recursion Theory (ART): An interview with me – (Part 1)

06-Apr-12

So what’s Actor Recursion Theory then? Actor Recursion Theory is a name I’ve given to a specific intervention outlined in my dissertation. It’s not fully developed yet, and as such links or presents my haphazard state of mind during a PhD thesis. It’s reflects an opinion, but I leave plenty of room for others. The [...]

Ennis’ notes on Horwtiz.

02-Apr-12

HERE and part two HERE I’ll also be talking about Reality in the Name of God very briefly at Liverpool. Paul and I have corresponded a little bit on Horwitz’s intriguing and gutsy monograph and I can’t wait to see what Paul will make of it.

Platforms, Encapsulation and Clean Code

31-Mar-12

If you can read Danish, a book called ‘Digital Urban Living’ has just been published, featuring a collaborated article by Geoff and I on the Privatisation of Platforms; a spin off from our paper for the Platform Politics conference last year. Here’s the blurb of the book. “The city’s Digital Life explores the new digital-layered challenges and potential of media architecture, interactive installations and multimedia [...]

Thinking the Absolute: The Ambiguities of Emergence, Novelty and Life in Formal Systems.

23-Mar-12

Some good news to report; our panel “The Ambiguities of Emergence, Novelty and Life in Formal Systems“, has been accepted at the “Thinking the Absolute Conference at Liverpool Hope University, June 29th – July 1st. The panel will involve myself, Charlie Gere and Francis Halsall – our abstracts are below. Looks like it will be [...]

Generosity in Academia

04-Mar-12

One of the more important pieces of advice that I had been given by my PhD supervisor concerns the following; There must always be room for generosity in academic debate with everyone at every stage of your career. Those of you who work in such areas will know what I’m on about. Ill feeling and [...]

Berlin pics

05-Feb-12

I only managed to take three. But the first one is of a panel I attended on anonymous and viral modes of political engagement. As you can imagine, the Q&A of that session was, well, slightly weird. The second is the main building where Transmediale usually takes place, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt; a [...]

“Why would you want to end your career like this?”

03-Feb-12

That’s what someone said to me earlier today, when I talked about the importance of Greenberg. Not unexpected of course – but it makes no sense to be ignorant about him. When I asked for the reason behind this opinion, the smug self-satisfaction of ‘you don’t understand’ and ‘we’re past this’ comes to the fore; [...]