Speculative Aesthetics
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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.
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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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 144 pages
- 160 x 212 x 11mm | 164g
- 08 Jan 2019
- Urbanomic Media Ltd
- Urbanomic
- Falmouth, United Kingdom
- English
- 16 b 32 Illustrations, unspecified
- 0957529570
- 9780957529571
- 49,431
Table of contents
Introduction; Amanda Beech, 'Art and its "Science"'; Benedict Singleton, 'Speculative Design'; Tom Trevatt, 'The Cosmic Address'; Peter Wolfendale, Amanda Beech, Simon O'Sullivan, Tom Trevatt, Alex Williams, Mark Fisher, Benedict Singleton, Robin Mackay, Nick Srnicek, 'Discussion'; Nick Srnicek, 'Accelerationism'; James Trafford, 'Towards a Speculative Rationality'; Alex Williams, 'The Politics of Abstraction'; Ray Brassier, 'Prometheanism and Real Abstraction'; Alex Williams, James Trafford, Tom Trevatt, Ray Brassier, Peter Wolfendale, Robin Mackay, Benedict Singleton, Nick Srnicek, 'Discussion'; Mark Fisher, 'Practical Eliminativism'; Robin Mackay, 'Neo-Thalassa'; Ben Woodard, 'Uncomfortable Aesthetics'; Simon O'Sullivan, Robin Mackay, Mark Fisher, Amanda Beech, Peter Wolfendale, Ray Brassier, Alex Williams, 'Discussion' Notes on Contributors
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About Robin Mackay
Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Amanda Beech is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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