writing and translation
This is the title of Daniel Kahneman’s remarkable new book. It describes and evaluates two very different types of thinking in quite considerable detail: “intuition” (fast), and something more like calculation, or rational thinking(slow). Kahnemann...
“The Gesture of Photographing,” the essay in which Flusser proposes a phenomenology of photography, appears for the first time in English in this month’s (December, 2011) issue of the Journal of Visual Culture. The article...
Lucy Skaer’s new work Film for an Abandoned Projector is showing–Thursday evenings–at the Lyric Picture House, Armley, Leeds. I was really, really pleased to be able to give a talk about it last Thursday,...
“To class a source-text as worth translating is to dignify it immediately and to involve it in a dynamic of magnification (subject, naturally, to later review and even, perhaps dismissal)” George Steiner, After Babel,...
I’ve been invited to talk about this work on 20 October, in Leeds. I’m nervous already. But the work is wonderful, and will be running as I’m talking…I think..and that’s reassuring. The projector in...
I just uploaded a conference paper called “Computing the Past” (under Writing>Papers). It describes Steven Poliakoff’s TV drama, Shooting the Past, as a conflict between two different ways of valuing photographic archives: as a...