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Category Archives: Philosophy

Thoughts on Platform Politics + Video

14-May-11

So I’ve arrived home from Platform Politics (at 5.00.a.m – no less). Blimey, that was a good conference. I’ve been to conferences where – you know – there are lots of people and lots of ‘stuff’ happens , lots of papers, lots of references; but at the same time nothing really happens. It’s like a [...]

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Trigger’s Broom (revisited)

07-May-11

Judging from the private emailed response to my article in Speculations Vol.2, it seems that a few people are getting a lot out of the OOO / Trigger’s Broom metaphor. I’ve written about this elsewhere, but here it is in Speculations + the clip; “There is a wonderful scene in the British television sitcom Only [...]

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The Art and Non-Art Question…

23-Apr-11

….has been asked by Michael Nitsche (at first) and in response Tim Morton has thrown it out there. “Michael Nitsche asked me a very pertinent question last week: to what extent does seeing causality as aesthetic erase boundaries between art and non-art? How, for example, would one even be able to define art if it [...]

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Extraordinary photographs of Ordinary Things

23-Apr-11

In the right hands, photography can perform an effortless yet salient presentation of ordinariness. However it can take great effort to capture ordinariness and make it extraordinary absorptive. I was struck down with absorption the other day in the work of Thomas Bangsted – a contemporary photographer from Denmark, who does fulfil the OOO commitment [...]

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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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Does anyone remember Foucaultisdead blog?

10-Apr-11

I think I should make this post a “missing bloggers: what are they doing now?” feature. Foucaultisdead.wordpress.com was a ‘Lacanian blog’ hosted by a critical theory masters graduate student in Dundee (I think). To my recollection, he never revealed his name. Along with Jodi Dean, K-Punk and Nina, he was one of the very early [...]

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Paul Caplan on OOO and jpeg protocols

08-Apr-11

HERE is a great post from Paul Caplan on jpegs, software protocols and OOO objects. I’ve had a quick glance through it (as I’m about to go out for the night), and I’m not sure I can disagree with any of his sound words. We’re on the same panel for the platform politics event in May, [...]

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It’s a tactical scoop

01-Apr-11

DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre) have published and launched their PEER-REVIEWED NEWSPAPER: NYHEDSAVISEN, following January’s public interfaces conference. Heres the PDF of it – it has my paper ‘Why we should be discrete in public.’ in there and everyone else’s paper from the conference in article form, including Geoff’s paper and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen. This free, fake [...]

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OOO Introduction

22-Mar-11

Courtesy of  Tim Morton HERE. Worth a look if you need a catch up. Like Ennis, I thought they were all going to write introductions to their own specific four positions. Here’s hoping.

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History of Shit: Dominque Laporte

22-Mar-11

I’ve finished my second read through History of Shit by the French psychoanalyst Dominque Laporte. Geoff put me onto this for our collaborative paper. It’s a blast, and although I don’t totally agree with it all – there are some important points from this bizarre piece of work. Originally published in 1978, the book is a [...]

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