The war of appearances
Subtitle: transparency, opacity, radiance
By: editors, Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybrock, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Contributors: Spuybroek, Lars, editor
Publisher: V2_Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789080179387
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Arts; Art; Philosophy; Philosophie; 20.99 art sciences: other
Description: The War of Appearances includes brand new essays by Paul Frissen, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Luciana Parisi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Willem Schinkel, Lars Spuybroek, René ten Bos, and McKenzie Wark, plus artworks by Paolo Cirio, Wim Delvoye, Tomás Saraceno, Diana Scherer. In their contributions they develop two strategies against the old Enlightenment ideal of transparency. An ideal that has been completely transformed into a global state of mediation and automation. The two strategies, opacity and radiance, initially appear to be diametrically opposed: one starts from a fundamental inaccessibility, the other one from an excess of visibility. But quickly they start to overlap and together they evolve into a kind of spook-phenomenology that opens up new ways of thinking and seeing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: In the thick of things  -- Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek, Sjoerd van Tuinen; title: A critique of transparency  -- Paul Frissen; title: Abnormal encephalization in the age of machine learning  -- Matteo Pasquinelli; title: Mediality with ends : when machines start to think  -- Luciana Parisi; title: Street ghosts  -- Paolo Cirio; title: Days of the week  -- Wim Delvoye; title: Harvest  -- Diana Scherer; title: Hybrid webs  -- Tomás Saraceno; title: Sun and lightning : the visibility of radiance  -- Lars Spuybroek; title: Object-oriented seduction : Baudrillard reconsidered  -- Graham Harman; title: On darkness and opacity : ecological reality and the life world  -- René ten Bos; title: Appearance is war  -- Timothy Morton; title: The subject of circulation : on secular life in the milieu of captial  -- Willem Schinkel; title: The sordid conspiracy of the unseen -- Mckenzie Wark.