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Sat · Jan 9 post · 2 min Reality as a message The problem of reality is in how it is traditionally thought about, as something tangible, as a given - something that is there simply because it’s there. Sun · Jan 3 post · 5 min Notes on Rosie Braidotti: Inhuman Symposium talk Inhumanism, posthumanism, antihumanism: bug of the human. Posthuman as a navigational tool. Convergence issue: (1) (anti)posthumanism + (2) postanthropocentrism. NL: humanism as a bastion of humanism. Antihumanism: Nietzsche& Sat · Dec 26 post · 2 min Notes on William E. Connolly. The ‘’New Materialsm’ and the fragility of things The ‘new materialism’ is the overall name given to movements in several fields that criticise anthropocentrism, focus on inhuman forces within the human, self-organising power within the nonhuman Tue · Dec 22 post · 4 min Notes on Stuart Hall, Encoding, Decoding Four-stage theory of communication: production, circulation, use (distribution or consumption), reproduction Polysemy - capacity for a sign (such as a word, phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings, Sun · Dec 13 post · 6 min Notes from the Introduction to Realism, Materialism, Art; Sternberg Press 2015 P.15: Realism and materialism: important watchwords in intellectual and cultural discourse today (reality can be known without its being shaped by and for human comprehension). This view Thu · Nov 19 post · 3 min Notes on Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared Notes on Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared Foreword by Francois L’Yvonnet: Why is there nothing rather than something? - Leibniz (reversed). Exploration of the Nothing Wed · Nov 18 post · 2 min Notes from the meeting with Etienne Turpin Gary Hall, 2014, Open Education: A Study in Disruption Heather Davis, Community practice Book as exhibition series (interpolations - points that carry the plot from one point to Tue · Nov 3 post · 13 min Notes: Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal Theriomorphous - Thought of as having the form of a beast. Used of a deity. p3 - …on the last day, the relations between animals and men will Wed · Oct 28 post · 7 min Notes: Davis & Turpin, Art in the Anthropocene - Art & Death p.3 - address the geological reformation of the human species What does it mean for art to encounter the Anthropocene? If art is now a practice condemned Sat · Jun 6 post · 3 min Notes on Artie Vierkant: The Image Object Post-Internet, 2010 Artie Vierkant is an artist active on the Internet and in physical space. His work can be seen at artievierkant.com and in the UbuWeb Film / Video Archive, Thu · Jun 4 post · 2 min Notes on A Theory of Networks by Galloway and Thacker The Exploit. A Theory of Networks. Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker. UMP 2013 Coda: Bits and Atoms p. 149 Networks are always exceptional, in the sense that Mon · May 25 post · 2 min Note from Dark Matter. Introduction: The Missing Mass P.1 - Dark Matter - an invisible mass predicted by the big bang theory, which 96% of universe consists of. Creative dark matter: makes up the bulk Mon · May 25 post · 2 min Notes from Sharon MacDonald, Chapter 1. Exhibitions of Power and powers of exhibition From: MacDonald, S. (2001). /The politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture/. Routledge: London p.2 - ...[exhibitions are] unequivocal statements rather than the outcome of particular processes and Sun · May 17 post · 3 min Notes from J. Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies. Chapter 9: Ideology and Meanings p.164 - Meanings are produced in the interactions between text and audience. Meaning production is a dynamic act in which both elements contribute equally. p. 165 - Wed · Apr 8 post · 1 min Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism, is there no alternative - p1 - 2006 film Children of men, 2005, V for Vendetta - p2 - It's easier to imagine the end of the world than it older notes →