Still Life with Woodpecker
Woodpecker is the logo image for Roaming CIC (Community Interest Company) …it just has the sort of shape, colour, and personality to be our logo, and it was made collectively at Roaming. We hadn’t...
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Roaming in Principle
“community interest company” is a remarkably fluid, and I suspect broad category recognized by Companies House, the registry of companies in the UK. It resembles a charity in some ways, but with a different organizational...
The Modern Lens
Expectations figure prominently in the experience of this exhibition, currently on view at Tate St.-Ives. You can just admire the images, of course, and there is a lot to admire. The print reproduced here is...
Just out from Bloomsbury!
Phenomenology, I think, is what makes Lambert Wiesing’s The Philosophy of Perception so startling. The book turns perception upside down. He’s saying, roughly, that perception determines and controls us, rather than the other way around. The...
Protreptic Writing
Lambert_Wiesing’s book, The Philosophy of Perception (forthcoming from Bloomsbury this August–my translation) contains–among many fine things–a resolution to the question, “How do phenomenologists speak–or write–without appearing to persuade?” Protreptic writing does not argue a...
Mois de la Photo a Montreal
I’ve just written a review of Drone: the Automated Image, to appear in Source Magazine (Belfast). The book is a catalogue of the biennial exhibition Mois de la Photo Montreal, 2013. But this is...