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Tag Archives: Philosophy
Foucault on Language
“At the moment of speaking, I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in its… Continue reading
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Category Art, Theory, Thought
Tags Language, Michel Foucault, Philosophy, Poetry, Theory
Cavell on Photography
“To say that photographs lie implies that they might tell the truth; but the beauty of their nature is exactly to say nothing, neither to lie nor not to. Then what purpose may be served, or disguised, in attempting to… Continue reading
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Category Art, Criticism, Photography, Theory, Thought
Tags Philosophy, Photography, Raritan Journal, Stanley Cavell, Theory, Thought
Azoulay on Citizenship & Photography
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Category Art, Photography, Politics, Theory
Tags Ariella Azoulay, Citizenship, Disaster, John Berger, Philosophy, Photography, Politics, Rebecca Solnit, Rousseau, The Civil Contract of Photography
Levi-Strauss on the photograph
“The truth is, photography can only do a couple of things really well. It can make visible the tracery of a relation, beginning with the relation between the photographer and his or her subject, and it can reflect on death.… Continue reading
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Category Art, Criticism, Photography, Thought
Tags David Levi-Strauss, Philosophy, Photography, Theory
Mitchell on the image and desire
“We need to reckon with not just the meaning of images but their silence, their reticence, their wildness and nonsensical obduracy. We need to account for not just the power of images but their powerlessness, their impotence, their abjection. We… Continue reading
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Category Art, Photography, Theory, Thought
Tags Art, Desire, Philosophy, Photography, Psychoanalysis, Sculpture, The Document, The Image, Theory, W.J.T. Mitchell
Foucault on history and the document
“…we must not imagine that in the analysis of politics, institutions, or economics, we have become more and more sensitive to overall determinations, while in the analysis of ideas and of knowledge, we are paying more and more attention to… Continue reading
Crimp on The Artist, and Photography
“Duchamp’s readymades had, of course, embodied the proposition that the artist invents nothing, that he or she only uses, manipulates, displaces, reformulates, repositions what history has provided. This is not to divest the artist of the power to intervene in,… Continue reading
Category Art, Photography, Theory
Tags Art, Canon formation, Douglas Crimp, Ontology, Philosophy, Photography, Postmodernism, The Museum, Theory
Lewis on Cultural Landscape
“Why do we build domes and spires on public buildings, but rarely on our houses? Why did lightning rods suddenly appear on the American scene, and then disappear except as antiques? Why do we plant our front yards to grass,… Continue reading
Category Uncategorized
Tags Cultural Landscape, David Harvey, Geography, Peirce F. Lewis, Philosophy, Rebecca Solnit, Sociology, Theory