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...
Experiments in Photography
Revelations: Experiments in Photography will open at the Science Museum in London on 20 March. I’m reviewing it for Source, and looking foward to seeing images I’ve liked for a very long time,...
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...
The Visibility of the Image
Professor Lambert Wiesing (shown here with students at the University of Jena, Germany) wrote Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes [The Visibility of the Image] quite some time ago. It was first published in 1996! The...
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...
Mira Schendel and Tate Papers
Unaccustomed as we may be to thinking of an artist as having “influenced” a philosopher, rather than the other way around, it seems clear that Mira Schendel had considerable impact on Vilem Flusser. I’ve...