• Introduction
    with Christoph Cox and Jenny Jaskey
    In Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey & Suhail Malik (eds.), Realism Materialism Art, Sternberg Press. pp. 15-31. 2015.
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    Realism Materialism Art (edited book)
    with Christoph Cox and Jenny Jaskey
    Sternberg Press. 2015.
    Realism Materialism Art (RMA) introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications in the arts. Encompassing neo-materialist theories, object-oriented ontologies, and neo-rationalist philosophies, RMA serves as a primer on “speculative realism,” considering its conceptual innovations as spurs to artistic thinking and practice and beyond. Despite their differences, these philosophical positions propose that thought can and does think outside …Read more
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    Global Sovereignty
    Theory, Culture and Society 23 (2-3): 512-517. 2006.
    Taking globalization to be in large part a consequence of American domination, we follow Derrida's characterization of this domination as being a mode of sovereignty of world-scale institutions and force. Such sovereignty, which is also a roguery, is the primary actual condition for a global knowledge. Bataille's characterization of rogue sovereignty, however, proposes that knowledge is eclipsed under such a condition by an experience that is irreducibly an unknowing. Knowledge is thus corroded …Read more
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    Information and Knowledge
    Theory, Culture and Society 22 (1): 29-49. 2005.
    A received criticism of information is that it is an instrumentalization of knowledge. This article questions the conditions for such a critique. Examining developmental systems theory, biology and social sciences, it argues that information is a situated event; that it is intrinsic to the development and (de)structuring of mnemic organization (meaning) at a number of levels; and that such developmental systems are epigenetically constituted. This concept of information leads to: a critique of t…Read more
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  • Reason is Inconsolable and Non-Conciliatory
    In Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey & Suhail Malik (eds.), Realism Materialism Art, Sternberg Press. pp. 213-230. 2015.
  • Reason to Destroy Contemporary Art
    In Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey & Suhail Malik (eds.), Realism Materialism Art, Sternberg Press. pp. 185-191. 2015.
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    The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy
    In Malik Suhail & Phillips Andrea (eds.), , . 2011.
    This article proposes that Ranciere offers an accurate account of contemporary art’s self-understanding of its politicality, explaining his widespread appreciation and influence by the sector. For this reason the critique of Ranciere’s notion of politics and the demonstration of its deliberate disavowal of specific political determination allow for a systemic argument against contemporary art’s critical ambitions as in any way politically adequate.