Thursday, 8 June 2023

Discussion on The End of Art, Again: Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion

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The End of Art, Again: Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion A discussion between Francis Halsall and Rachel O’Dwyer Friday 16 th Ju...
Friday, 24 April 2020

The Inhuman Excess

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There is a biological and materiality inhumanity within which human thought is stranded.  The essence of human consciousness lies buri...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual systems.

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This idea of humanism cannot continue. Who would seriously and deliberately want to maintain that society could be formed on the model o...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Some thoughts on rocks and glass

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This text was commissioned for the catalogue for the  Ireland Glass Biennial 2017 “ The rock is the gray particular of man’s life, Th...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Strange Fascination: Bowie and Apophenia

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If the ambition of Cracked-Actor-Network-Theory is to use Bowie to explore the conditions of subjectivity in late capitalism, then it must ...
Monday, 24 July 2017

Cracked-Actor Network Theory: David, Diana and Donald

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We'll explore the connection between these three in later posts. In the meantime here is an excerpt from Simon Reynolds :...

Bowie and The Network Society

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Bowie: The Network Society and Opening Themes (Death; Sex/ Gender; Economics; Love; Medium/ Form; The Future) The key claim of the Crac...