Photographs and family
Photographs have some effect on “family,” but I seriously doubt whether they actually consolidate or construct it. The idea comes first, I think, and the photographs shore it up. Whatever elusive idea actually ties...
Now in Paperback!
Bloomsbury Academic has decided to reprint Lambert Wiesings’s The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory (my translation) in paperback–it’s available for pre-order now (see link on the right side of this page). It’s...
Imagining
Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist’s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous,...
“Crypto-relics”
In an article in in TLS for April 10 of this year (“Traces of the Holy,”) Matthew Bown raises a question about the ‘symbolic economy’ in which some people pay astronomical sums for works of contemporary...
Ritual Gesture
Apparently Flusser’s Gestures essays have not made such an impact on others as they have on me! Things are very quiet. But I return often, especially to the categories he suggests for a kind of...
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...