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20In the Thick of ThingsIn Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek & Sjoerd van Tuinen (eds.), The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance, V2_publishing. pp. 6-11. 2016.Short introduction to the V2 publication of "The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance" (2016). An anthology with Matteo Pasquinelli, Luciana Parisi, Graham Harman, Tomas Saraceno, René ten Bos, Tim Morton, McKenzie Wark, Wim Delvoye, Diana Scherer, Paolo Cirio, Paul Frissen, and Willem Schinkel.
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199Falling and Image: The Phenotechnology of AccidentIn J. Brouwer & S. Van Tuinen (eds.), Technological Accidents, Accidental Technology, V2_publishing. pp. 84-117. 2023.By slowly dissolving the contrast between necessity and chance we arrive at Leibniz’ Principle of Sufficient Reason, which we trace back to his ideas on sufficient grace. Doing so, the world of things falling and befalling starts to become the engine of appearances and images, something we initially find in Lucretius, then in Virilio and Baudrillard. Why is it that the media crave accident? Because in phenotechnology only the transfer to images counts, not the breaking with the final cause of te…Read more
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277The Grace Machine: Of Turns, Wheels and LimbsFootprint 22 (Summer): 7-32. 2018.Starting with a few simple questions about living well and where movement originates from this essay turns into a vast map of intricate relations revolving around the notion of grace. By developing the argument from a historical perspective it quickly becomes clear that grace relies on the specific qualities of figuration and how the figure appears in what is termed “the gap between habit and inhabitation.” This article is a shorter version of the introductory chapter to my “Grace and Gravity: A…Read more
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588Sun and Lightning: The Visibility of RadianceIn Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek & Sjoerd van Tuinen (eds.), The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance, V2_publishing. pp. 98-127. 2016.A long chapter for The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance (V2_Publishing, 2016) building on the findings of “Charis and Radiance,” an essay published two years earlier. It discusses the inherent connection between visibility and radiance within the framework of Plato’s sun model as the source of reality. The argument develops a system where transcendent verticality and earthly horizontality together construct an “arena of presence” in which things flood each other with light, ab…Read more
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681Gothic Ontology and Sympathy: Moving Away from the FoldIn Sjoerd van Tuinen (ed.), Speculative Art Histories: Analysis at the Limits, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.This transcription of a keynote for the Speculative Art Histories conference in May 2013 is a mixture of the main argument of The Sympathy of Things and some new insights. The text might be helpful for those who have not read the Sympathy book, which has been sold out for a number of years. This essay will appear as a chapter in Sjoerd van Tuinen's Speculative Art Histories, to be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2017.
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675The Acrobatics of the Figure: Piranesi and MagnificenceIn Dr J. G. Wallis de Vries (ed.), ARCHESCAPE: The Piranesi Flights, 1001 Publishers. pp. 5-11. 2015.An essay, which I wrote for the catalog to the exhibition “ARCHESCAPE: the Piranesi Flights,” organized by the Dutch Piranesi scholar Gijs Wallis de Vries. The text, which is necessarily kept short, uses notions of the magnificent and the tragic that I discovered in Hartshorne’s Aesthetic Diagram as discussed in “The Ages of Beauty.”
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279In the Thick of ThingsIn Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek & Sjoerd van Tuinen (eds.), The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance, V2_publishing. pp. 6-11. 2016.Short introduction to the V2 publication of "The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance" (2016). An anthology with Matteo Pasquinelli, Luciana Parisi, Graham Harman, Tomas Saraceno, René ten Bos, Tim Morton, and many others.
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787The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the MiddleIn Maria Voyatzaki (ed.), Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, Edinburgh University Press. 2018.This chapter is a rethinking of my earlier “The Ages of Beauty” which investigated Charles Hartshorne’s Diagram of Aesthetic Values. The argument is placed in a long history of beauty being considered as the middle between extremes. It slowly develops into a structure not merely of aesthetic experience but of existence itself, making it a competitor of Heidegger’s fourfold.
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Georgia Institute of TechnologyRegular Faculty
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |