Seeing Degree Zero

Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics

Ryan Bishop, Sunil Manghani (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

456 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3142-2 (ISBN)

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In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin.

In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the editors’ ongoing collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors and Burgin, a series of collaborative texts with Burgin and four commissioned essays concerned with the relationship between Barthes and Burgin in the context of the spectatorship of art. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin’s long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, 'Belledonne' and 'Prairie', which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP). Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Response/abilities of SeeingRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani

Reading Barthes, AgainVictor Burgin and Sunil Manghani

BelledonneVictor Burgin

Part 1: Degrees and Variations

Saenredam, Barthes, BurginSunil Manghani

I was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin’s Projection LoopsRyan Bishop

The Situation of PracticeVictor Burgin

Part 2: Image Zero Degree

Painting, Photography, ProjectionRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani

The End of the FrameVictor Burgin

Camera as Object and ProcessRyan Bishop, Sean Cubitt and Victor Burgin

PrairieVictor Burgin

Part 3: Writerly Readings

Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne Christine Berthin

Prairie (Argo)Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary

Photography as Rhythm: On PrairieDomietta Torlasco

The Work of Death in Burgin’s BelledonneGordon Hon

Notes on Contributors Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	140 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	267 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4744-3142-9 / 1474431429
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3142-2 / 9781474431422
Zustand	Neuware