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Paul Caplan’s Thesis….

11-Apr-13

… is available to read HERE. It’s very very good.

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Exeter Talk PDF: Anti-Anthropocentrism: Politics, Art and Aesthetics beyond Thought.

23-Mar-13

Ok here is the talk I gave at Exeter this week. It’s the same deal – the PDF is HERE , but I’ve pasted the text underneath for those who prefer to read on phones, etc. The talk won’t make too much sense without the slides, so here is the movable mov. file too. (give [...]

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Graham’s thoughts on art and SR

03-Mar-13

Graham’s weighed in with a few thoughts on some of the SR/art conferences / speculative themes going on at the moment (of which one, D.U.S.T’s Weaponizing Speculation, is still going as I speak). I think he’s spot on of course, but what some readers may not know is that I have a 10,000 word essay [...]

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Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

23-Jan-13

There is a new exhibition on Georgio Morandi at the Estorick Collection, London, called Lines of Poetry. I’ve heard that they’ve brought together quite a few drawings and watercolours not previously seen in the UK – and more excitingly it collects all of the most important graphic work he did, including drawings there weren’t characteristically [...]

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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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Galloway’s article – Three Points

09-Dec-12

Caveat: This is a long post – so I’d get a cup of tea or something. So as one might expect, the flurry of discussions arising from Alexander Galloway’s Critical Inquiry article The Poverty of Philosophy: Realism and Post-Fordism have been, well, operating like a flurry – as in a small swirling mass of something. [...]

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Another essay on things: O-Zone and Florian Slotawa

04-Nov-12

O-Zone have kindly got in touch with me: it looks like they will publish my essay on Florian Slotawa for their inaugural issue. Nice to have two essay announcements to talk about in one weekend. If you don’t know Slotawa’s work – the picture below is from one of his more, well known pieces. Taken [...]

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Nice comment from Paletten

18-Oct-12

The author Fredrik Österblom got in contact and kindly sent me the article in question. It’s in Paletten issue 3: 2012 #289; p.29 (Graham also emailed me about this). UPDATED: (My translation was awful, so addressing the comments below and from Fredrick’s email, I’ve put their translations in) ; “In recent years, an object-oriented movement [...]

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Bogost on Turing

16-Jul-12

A very McLuhanesque reading of Turing by Ian HERE. There’s more to be written in reading Turing this way – in my article I went for a Latourian reading. More or less the same thing if you’re an OOO-er.

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David Golumbia ‘takes care’ of SR/OOO

19-Jun-12

And by “taking care” I mean generalise the hell out of its members and differing complex positions by accusing it of ‘obviating’ all previous material. It’s a textbook example of sawing the branch you’re sitting on :- accuse a movement of ruthlessly obviating all previous material, by ruthlessly obviating the movement’s own material.

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