Material absorbed in its own thoughts :
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
The Black Workbooks : Forces of juxtaposed areas.
Monday, 27 January 2025
The Centrality of the Human Body to Architecture : Quotidian Aesthetics/Interventions
Outpost 270125
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In-Transit
The Complex Process of Knowledge Production.
The Narrative of Theoretical 'Unravelling'.
What Is An Artist?
Irit Rogoff. 2006
Robert Morris
Catalogue Entries.
Columns, 1961
Passageway, 1961
Box For Standing, 1961
Portals, 1961
Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making, 1961
Early Minimalism
Measurement, 1963
Imprints And Body Casts, 1963-64
Site, 1964
Leads, 1971
Felts, 1967-83
Dirt, 1968
Continuous Project Altered Daily, 1969
Observatory, 1971-77
Rubbings, 1972
INFRA-THIN
Sensations between objective knowledge, difference and truth.
Post-structuralism, A very Short Introduction.
Catherine Belsey.
The Architecture of Emergence.
The Evolution Of Form In Nature And Civilisation.
Michael Weinstock.
The Architecture Of Continuity.
Lars Spuybroek.
The Body.
The Lived Body.
The Flesh of Things
Donn Welton
Written On The Body.
The World and Other Stories.
Jennette Winterson.
Painting for Bacon was a visceral event a sensation, driven by emergent behaviours and phenomena.
Ceramic spatial inceptions with circulating totems.
Slab built, Stoneware. 2025
Tentative/Theoretical/Speculative Landing Sites.
Between Organism-Person-Environment and its Spatial/Architectural Body.
Preface.
Stefan Fichtel
Well-made animated information graphics are based on clear decisions about what matters and what should be left out.
Human Body/Indexical Trace on dot-matrix paper.
The Centrality of The Human Body to Architecture.
Undone/Assemblages of Concern.
Collage as the third aesthetic.
Ranciere argues for collage as 'third' aesthetic: it can combine two relations and play on the line of indiscernability, between forces of sense's legibility, and the force of non-sense's strangeness.
The Dark Monarch.
Magic and Modernity in British Art. 2010
The Bricoleur/sweeping the floor/movements in matter/spatial layering, thought in motion.
Embodying Emotion Sensing Space:
Introducing emotional geographies.
Joyce Davidson, Christine Milligan. 2004
Studio Floor Material.
The Artist's Reality
Philosophies of Art
Mark Rothko.
Culture, Creativity and Environment.
New Environmentalist Criticism.
Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford.
Ecology Without Nature.
Towards a Theory of Ecological Criticism.
Timothy Morton.
Visual Ecology
Transparency : Expressing the Unseen.
Transparency-the ability to see into and understand the inner workings of a landscape-is an absolutely essential ingredient to sustainability. In a world where more and more of the technology controlling our lives is not only beyond our individual control but is also invisible and incomprehensible to the average person, the landscape sreves not only as the foundation for our only genuine 'tangible' reality, but as the only mechanism by which we can really know where we are-and how and why as well. It can be argued that as humans we have a right to know where we are, how we are connected, and how we are doing.
Gray World, Green Heart.
Robert L. Thayer, Jr.
Julia Kristeva
Black Sun.
Depression and Melancholia.
Susan Sontag
Under the Sign of Saturn
After Hiroshima
elin o'Hara slavick
On Pictures and the words that fail them.
On An Image Of A Bottle
James Elkins
A Field Guide to Melancholy
Melancholy and The Landscape
Locating Sadness, memory and reflection in the landscape.
Jacky Bowring
Who Comes after the Subject?
The essays collected in this volume present the current research of nineteen contemporary French philosophers on one of the great motifs of modern philosophy: the critique or the deconstruction of subjectivity.
Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor, Jean-Luc Nancy.
The Enchantment Of Modern Life.
Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics.
Jane Bennett
Ordinary Lives.
Studies in the Everyday.
Ben Highmore.
Everyday/Quotidian Aesthetics.
Ranciere is perhaps the contemporary writer most alive to the productive and necessary confusion between aesthetics as a general field describing the realm of sensate perception, and the more limited meaning relevant to the field of art that has taken shape in the West in the last two hundred or so years. And it is this confusion (a confusion that infuses both the general and the limited economy of aesthetics) that we can find the materials to help us build a quotidian aesthetics.
The Politics of Aesthetics.
The Distribution of the Sensible
Jacques Ranciere.
Emergent behaviours/phenomena to generate buildings.
Screen-shot CCTV.
Fire exit intervention WSA. 2008
The Centrality of the Human Body to Architecture.
Framing/Temporal Containment/Instances and Immediacies : Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies.
Monday, 16 May 2022
Postmodern : Contested Landscapes for Melancholy
Postmodern : Ever Changing, Fleeting, Positive, Nihilistic,
"There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them.
It therefore has a combination [chiffre]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity
is conceptual...
Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin
with the same concept,
they do not have the same concept of beginning...
Every concept has an irregular
contour defined by the sum of its components,
which is why,
from Plato to Bergson,
we find
the idea of the concept being a
matter of articulation,
of cutting and
cross-cutting.
The concept is a whole because it totalizes
its components, but it is
a fragmentary whole.
Only on this condition can it escape the
mental chaos
constantly threatening it, stalking it, trying to reabsorb it."
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, pp. 15-16.
Melancholy And The Landscape
Locating Sadness, Memory And Reflection In The Landscape
Jacky Bowrin
Path : Analogue Film Process
St Catherine's Hill, Winchester
Anthrocene : Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree.
Walberswick : Beach Slides/Digital Pinhole
Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape
Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach
The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane
“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:
Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”
“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”
Landscape : Entanglements of Affect
Deeper Darkness, Photographic Memory/Process, Metonymy, Negative,
Analogue, Negated Nocturne. Walking, Others, Presence, Becoming,
Landscapes : entering/intruding/emerging
Pinhole Photography (Holga)
Landscape : Entanglements of Affect/Aesthetics
Nihilistic Aesthetic : Bleached Cyanotype


















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