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Comment on The Rhetoric Of The Image – Roland Barthes (1964) by Seize the day

Seize the day — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:42:23 +0000

Reblogged this on “Where there is power, there is resistance.” and commented: Cool

Comment on Fushitsusha by Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:19:41 +0000

Thanks Jimmy …..

Comment on Fushitsusha by Jimmy Jimmy

Jimmy Jimmy — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:55:09 +0000

Excellent story Hugh. Photograph looks legendary

Comment on Fire and Ice – Peter Wollen (1984) by Linda

Linda — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:03:09 +0000

me too? I need it for my studies…

Comment on Fire and Ice – Peter Wollen (1984) by Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:26:11 +0000

Hi,

I’m afraid I don’t. I read it in The Photography Reader edited by Liz Wells …

Hugh

Comment on Fire and Ice – Peter Wollen (1984) by voltaires.monkey

voltaires.monkey — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:34:18 +0000

Hi Hugh,

Do you have a PDF copy of Wollen’s essay that you could email to me?

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Lucio

Comment on How Objects Experience Each Other by Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:47:28 +0000

Hi Henry. Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated! Yes, as I understand it, Kant’s version of idealism doesn’t deny the existence of objects outside consciousness but merely says that our knowledge of them can only ever be that granted to us by our senses (which sounds like phenomenology to me). This also seems to loosely correspond to the “sensual object” part of Harman’s scheme. But where Kant and his followers would take this as cue to say that the proper task of philosophy is to think about this human experience of the world (because there’s not much point trying to do anything else since that’s the only experience we can ever have), Harman and co. would say that this is a limited and limiting view of things that falsely places humans at the centre of the universe. They would maintain (like Kant) that there there is a reality outside consciousness, and while we may not be able to truly know it, we can speculate about it – hence speculative realism. Certainly the bracket does not experience the guitar in the way that I experience it, but there is clearly some sort of relationship between them that is independent of my consciousness. Harman seems to say that relationship is a form of intention (in the Husserl/phenomenology sense). This is obviously where things get quite weird. He also seems to suggest that this intention is itself an object ….

Comment on How Objects Experience Each Other by Henry Hern

Henry Hern — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:41:18 +0000

Clear summary. Harman sounds very Kantian (as I read Kant, Kant doesn’t deny that there is an object in itself outside consciousness, only that it is unknowable) until the part about the bracket’s experience of the guitar. As I see it, the bracket can’t have an “experience” of the guitar. While not being an idealist, I happen to think that consciousness does hold a privileged function in the universe in so far as it allows the universe to posit — to be there — for itself. The guitar can’t be there for the bracket. Also, I wonder about the notion that a photograph freezes time. Doesn’t the photograph itself immediately become an object in time that you can look at from different perspectives? Anyhow, I very much enjoyed this. Thanks.

Comment on About This Blog by maryeinbinder

maryeinbinder — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:17:22 +0000

I am writing mostly on how photographers have been influenced by Music. For instance, Harold Edgerton’s movements in photography or Gjon Mili’s photographs of drummers.
Thanks for your help and I really like your blog

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