philosophical conversations'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'(Untitled)- July 15, 2008 The iphone sure has been hyped...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/the-iphone-sure.html return of the sublime- July 14, 2008 After Kant, who reserved the concept of the sublime for nature ---and understood it in terms of the as a presentation of unpresentability--- the sublime becomes a historical constituent of art. This category is rarely mentioned in artistic discourse in Australia, even though it can be seen in various visual...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/return-of-the-s.html the photographic gaze- July 13, 2008 Late 19th century photography worked in terms of the colonial or anthropological gaze that reminds us of the unequal power relations on the Australian frontier, as expressed in the way that indigenous peoples were reduced firstly to passive witnesses and finally to objects of curiosity.The anthropological casts a surveillant and...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/the-photographi.html a national festival of photography- July 11, 2008 The Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography1840s-1940s at the National Gallery of Australia is part of a larger number (50) of photographic exhibitions around the country that constitute one festival--Vivid My interest is in the intellectual discourse around this festival in our visual culture as distinct from the art historical discourse around...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/the-picture-par.html Hegel on freedom: a note- July 7, 2008 Hegels freedom claim in the Philosophy of Right is that the subject is at home only when it lives under laws, customs, practices and institutions the underlying rationale of which it can recognize, i.e. understand and affirm as rational. And it can recognize and affirm these laws because they have...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/new-post-85.html Alison Bennett: To Occupy- July 7, 2008 The Australian National University's School of Art has a n exhibition gallery entitled the Photospace Gallery. It will show some work by Alison Bennett entitled To Occupy: panoramic interiors of concrete fortifications from the 4th -14th August. Bennett says that: This series of images is an investigation into the notion...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/new-entry-23.html analytic philosophy- July 4, 2008 In his The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation Nicholas Capaldi states that by "the Enlightenment Project" he means "the attempt to define and explain the human predicament through science as well as to achieve mastery over it through the use of a social technology". Analytic philosophy has been a...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/analytic-philos.html Visible City Project- July 3, 2008 The Visible City Project seeks to understand the different roles that artists play in imagining and helping to design 21st century cities. The project seeks to discern how art practices function in specific contemporary urban contexts as a tool for enhancing communication and renovating democratic citizenship. They investigates how art...http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/07/visible-city-pr.html |