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- Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art
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- 2021
- Published by: Punctum Books
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What if all works of art were better understood as functioning apparatuses, entangling their human audiences in experiences of becoming? What if certain works of art were even able to throw the brakes on becoming altogether, making nothings rather than somethings? What would be the ethical value of making nothing, of stalling becoming; and how might such nothings even be made?
Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art borrows its understanding of apparatuses from quantum mechanics and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and its understanding of nothing from apophatic (negative) theology. It then proposes a new way of understanding art, applying this understanding to artworks by Arakawa and Gins, Robert Fludd, David Crawford, Joshua Citarella, William Pope.L, and Haim Steinbach. Philosophy, physics, theology, and media theory are traversed and involved in order to understand art differently so that it might be made to matter more.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 15-22
- I. Regarding Apparatuses and Apophasis
- 1. Regarding Apparatuses
- pp. 23-128
- 2. Regarding Apophasis
- pp. 129-200
- II. Some Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art
- III. Conclusions
- 7. Toward an Ethics of Nothing
- pp. 417-440
- Bibliography
- pp. 441-462
Additional Information
ISBN
9781953035387
Related ISBN(s)
9781953035370
MARC Record
OCLC
1245577658
Pages
462
Launched on MUSE
2021-04-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2021