The Medium of Contingency
An unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets, and the art world.Why has the concept of contingency taken on a marked importance both in contemporary philosophy and in contemporary art practice? And if this simultaneity derives from parallel problems met within the two different fields, what are their common roots?Beyond acknowledging the contingent nature of tradition, institutions, and practices, recent speculative philosophies of absolute contingency” demand a radical revision of the ways in which we conceive of our interaction with unknowable materialities, and pose a challenge to both probabilistic management and p…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9930458-9-9
- EAN: 9780993045899
- Produktnummer: 29160040
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Reihenbandnummer: 03
Über den Autor
Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of theory-fiction with his book Cyclonopedia. (Urbanomic/Sequence Press).
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