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What is Generative Art?
Art by Gwendal Tsang We live in the age of the digital image not only because of its powerful hybridity and power to order material reality but also because of its powerful pedesis, interactivity, and power to disorder reality—to create new kinesthetic processes. The beauty of contemporary generative art lies not in its “random” number…
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Sigurds Vīdzirkste: A Little-Known Contributor to Cybernetics in New York
While I was giving a talk in New York the other week I had the chance to see a preview of this incredible exhibit on Latvian migrant exile artists working in New York in the 1960s (thanks to Andra Silapetere). I was really struck by the mysterious work of one artists in particular: Sigurds Vīdzirkste.…
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The Climate Industrial Complex
The Climate Industrial Complex A talk given at ArtsLink, CUNY, Baruch College, Nov 2019 The Kinocene One way to think about the current geological epoch is that it is an age of movement and mobility. People and things now travel faster and further than ever before. Certain humans have extracted entire geological strata out of…
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Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a ‘reserve climate labor army.’ This asymmetry is the result of a long history of capitalist…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail (transcript)
B.A. Gonczarek I’m here with Thomas Nail, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of recently published book Theory of the Image, welcome Thomas. I must admit I was really looking forward to our discussion. When preparing to our conversation I did my research online and I was taken by…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail
The nature of digital image A conversation between Thomas Nail, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of the recently published book “Theory of the Image,” and B.A. Gonczarek, your host. A philosopher’s perspective on the nature of digital images, their material roots, and various consequences which escape…
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New Issue of Theory & Event, Volume 22, Number 4, October 2019
The latest issue of Theory & and Event looks great! Congrats to Kieran on the Symposium on “Myth and Politics in Furio Jesi”. Looks like some great contributions in there. Introduction Cristina Beltrán, Kennan Ferguson pp. 789-791 View | Download | Save Articles More Than a Hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo Rosemary…
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“Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics,” by Kevin Potter
Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics Kevin Potter Ariel: A Review of International English Literature Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 50, Number 4, October 2019 pp. 51-78 10.1353/ari.2019.0033 Abstract “No one leaves home unless / Home is the mouth of a shark” read the opening lines of Warsan Shire’s…
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ArtsLink Assembly 2019: Global Warning – Artists and the Anthropocene
I will be speaking at ArtsLink, along with others, at CUNY Nov. 13th on migration, art, and the Anthropocene.
The Philosophy of Movement 