Tag: philosophy

  • But he was wrong. Before these tools became widespread, photographers were indeed very much like painters, in both form and function. The camera itself evolved from the camera obscura, literally a “darkened room,” in which one or two people would stand, and record the scene before them, tracing it on wallpaper. Later film-based large format cameras required…

  • Foucault’s and Heidegger’s arguments are not about the autonomous self, but relate to a particular engagement with being which is fundamentally pre-subjective and pre-ethical. In both cases, I will argue, care of the self concerns a certain openness within the closure of modern technologically conditioned experience; an openness that is resolutely indeterminate. This openness is…

  • Massumi says the black and white soccer ball pattern was for satellite transmission, via Telstar. Made with Paper

  • Massumi says the black and white soccer ball pattern was for satellite transmission, via Telstar. Made with Paper