sean cubitt's blog
aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Silence and Invisibility
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this morning, preparing a lecture on Walter Benjamin's theses On the Concept of History I found myself considering the difficulty of...
Friday, June 12, 2020
how to write a history of realism
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In the 21st century frame, realism is a question of data – the composition of the stuff of the world in the form of facts - and modes of da...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
presence and abstraction
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In Minima Moralia para 145, Adorno writes that, in both art and kitsch, 'freedom from nature is celebrated, but remains mythically entra...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Allonomy: autonomy and after
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The era of autonomous art is over. Because, as Terry Flaxton put it in a recent email, media arts, electronic arts specifically, disappear ...
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Presence, the edge, the abstract
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In Minima Moralia para 145, Adorno writes that, in both art and kitsch, 'freedom from nature is celebrated, but remains mythically entr...
Thursday, April 2, 2020
ens quo maius cogitari nequit
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" . . so that an angel can proportionate this power to a greater or smaller part of corporeal substance; for if there was no body at...
Marcel Mauss vs Arthur C Clarke
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic": Arthur C Clarke c. 1973 And here is a passage from Marce...
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