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Category Archives: Levi Bryant

Bad at Sports: “What is there”, An Introduction to OOO and art

22-Jan-13

Starting from today, I’ll be writing a regular blogpost/article/piece on OOO for the Chicago-based arts blog ‘Bad at Sports” The first text is already online. It is the first part of an Introduction to OOO and its possible relation to art and aesthetics – called ‘What is there?”

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Release the objects

13-Sep-11

Most of you know the news – but for those unaware, Levi Bryant’s long-awaited book The Democracy of Objects has now been released on the Open Humanites Press website. You can read it directly on the website HTML stylee – or if you’re like me and abhor reading complex texts on a screen, you can [...]

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Response to Levi

04-Aug-11

So Levi wrote THIS lengthy but necessary reply to my last post. In summary, Levi noted Ranciere’s equality of human spectator is wholly contingent on human criticism, and acknowledges that Ranciere’s aesthetic leanings could easily apply to non-human actors (which I completely agree with). Here’s Levi, who nails it as articulately as always: “As a [...]

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Therefore OOO and politics

02-Aug-11

There’s been a ‘discussion flurry’ on the topic of OOO and politics. Intra Being has a decent summation on it, riffing on Morton’s posts (HERE) and Levi’s posts (HERE) and (HERE). Can a egalitarian position be articulated in OOO, can a restoration of democratic values be reworked by the plurality of object behaviour? I for [...]

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Sandcastles and sand piles: Levi on Entropy

10-Apr-11

HERE’S an illuminating post by Levi on Entropy, OOO, societies and systems. “Entropy, rather, is a measure of the order present in a system. A high entropy system is a system in which there is equal probability that an element will be located anywhere in the system. Such a system is characterized by having a high degree [...]

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Irreducible Determinate Entities: Wolfram, Agency and Complexity

10-Mar-11

WARNING: this is a very long post, but also the beginnings of my position. So tread carefully. Yesterday, Levi and Tim posted intriguing accounts of theorising OOO agency, without descending into individualist freedom or determined holism. So here is the problem, as they both see it politically; “Arguing for agency within individuals risks reiterating a [...]

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What is the difference between absorbing and securing?

03-Mar-11

A lot of blog activity has developed around Levi’s claims regarding objects, properties and relations. (DC has a great summary here) One can’t judge till The Democracy of Objects comes out (which is out soon I gather), but he gives us a flavour of what to expect in terms of autopoietic and allopoietic machines. I’m [...]

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On Agency: Response to Roden’s Reply on my Remarks

15-Feb-11

I’ve only just picked up on one of Roden’s comments over at Enemy Industry (his own blog) about my remarks on algorithmic artworks such as Every Icon. “I feel I need to respond to Robert’s remark on algorithmic art at greater length. Discreteness – unless I’ve read him wrong – doesn’t seem to entail complete [...]

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Code and the non-ubiquity of emergence

25-Jan-11

Its interesting how certain blog-post themes rally around your thoughts and congeal into one blog-post of your own. So heres one on emergence, OOO and computation. “The argument for a dialectics of software art runs in parallel to the way in which source code is ready for action. A program, like any programme of action, [...]

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Trying to make Vitale eat an object.. like a hat, a computer or a traffic jam

16-Jan-11

I don’t normally throw my two cents (or pence) in with blog-squabble. Trying to prove a point in casual-academic narrowcasting is usually futile, blogs have limits and one of them is listening to each other. However, I’m going to completely contradict what I’ve just said and offer a response to Vitale’s challenges HERE, and his [...]

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