Mathematical Monsters and the Continuum
Elizabeth de Freitas
As Erin Manning (2015, 48) says of artfulness, there is always “a
rigorous process that consists in pushing technique to its limit,
revealing its technicity.” This technicity becomes more than a
confining habit when it is attuned to the force of its own
potential, when it evolves into a technicity that unleashes “a
becoming that could not have been mapped in advance” (ibid., 60).
Technicit...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: ongoing
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in absence
practice: philosophy
keywords: Georg Cantor, Imre Lakatos, mathematics
Sisyphus and Deleuze
Louisa Buck
This paper will examine how my art practice applies ideas of
classical reception theory in the production of a history of the
myth of Sisyphus. As reception history reveals alterations and
shifts of meaning through time and cultures, so the myth of
Sisyphus can be seen as a metaphor of layers of repetition laid
upon each other as each cycle of punishment begins, alluding to
Deleuze’s concepts of...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 11, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Penthouse
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: Claire Colebrook, eternal return, Friedrich Nietzsche, repetition, Stoicism