| Speculative Aesthetics Contributor(s): MacKay, Robin (Editor), Trafford, James (Editor), Pendrell, Luke (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0957529570 ISBN-13: 9780957529571 Publisher: Urbanomic OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Art | Criticism & Theory - Philosophy | Essays |
| Series: Urbanomic / Redactions |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.35 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge. This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design. From varied perspectives of philosophy, art, and design, participants examine the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the massive planetary media network within which it now exists and consider how the aesthetic enables new modes of knowledge by processing sensory data through symbolic formalisms and technological devices. Speculative Aesthetics anticipates the possibility of a theory and practice no longer invested in the otherworldly promise of the aesthetic, but acknowledging the real force and traction of images in the world today, experimentally employing techniques of modelling, formalisation, and presentation so as to simultaneously engineer new domains of experience and map them through a reconfigured aesthetics that is inseparable from its sociotechnical conditions. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacKay, Robin: - Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.Beech, Amanda: - Amanda Beech is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. |