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oapen-20.500.12657-468502022-07-21T14:00:23Z Some Ways of Making Nothing Cloninger, Curt apophasis, conceptual art, art theory, Arakawa & Gins, David Crawford, Haim Steinbach, Joshua Citarella, Robert Fludd, William Pope.L bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues::ABA Theory of art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACX History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -::ACXJ Art & design styles: from c 1960::ACXJ5 Art & design styles: Conceptual art "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." 2021-02-17T10:27:03Z 2021-02-17T10:27:03Z 2021 book 9781953035370 9781953035387 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46850 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0327.1.00.pdf punctum books Ecologies Book 10.21983/P3.0327.1.00 10.21983/P3.0327.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781953035370 9781953035387 ScholarLed Ecologies Book 462 Brooklyn, NY open access
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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."
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