poetry | photography | philosophy
Engaging analogue photography in the world, not in a laboratory, is engaging modelling, specifically statistical modelling. Obviously chemistry and chemical reactions are other ways of engaging analogue photography. The pixel is a generalisation of the silver halide crystal. While digital photography can be – and, seemingly, is mostly – engaged in the world, that world…
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Picture yourself in an art gallery eyeing the mysterious beauty of some post-modern painterly disaster hanging on one of the gallery walls. Conceive now the world you are standing in, the very same world that holds in its bosom those atrocious paintings hanging on the gallery walls, as one unitary painterly mess. Yourself now, as Pantocrator,…
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The Other irks perception; perception cannot withstand otherness. The Other is a thorn in the side of perception. The world is first seen. The perturbation, the anomaly, is an Other mindlessly perceived, the Other impinging upon perception. The world is first seen. Everything approaches Dasein from a future; all beings hold a futurity in perception.…
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