Papers by Anders Michelsen
K&K - Kultur og Klasse, 2016
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Thesis Eleven, 2007
This article discusses the issue of social and cultural 'autotranscendence'-self-production, crea... more This article discusses the issue of social and cultural 'autotranscendence'-self-production, creativity-in the debates on self-organization. The point of departure is Cornelius Castoriadis's idea of 'self-creation'. First, a schisma between mechanical and ontological modeling is indicated and used to introduce the idea of a 'creative organization'. This is further discussed in relation to Jean-Pierre Dupuy's concept of social 'autotranscendence' by 'complex methodological individualism', with particular respect to the incomprehension of the social. Following Johann P. Arnason's treatment of the question of cultural articulation in Castoriadis, the article argues that the problem of autotranscendence presents a further problem of self-creation discernible in Castoriadis's notions of phusis/nomos, living being/human, and constraint/ magma. The article closes with a consideration of Duncan Watts, Alberto-László Barabási and Bernardo Huberman's sketch of a network sociology.
This article treats the philosophical underpinnings of the notions of ubiquity and pervasive comp... more This article treats the philosophical underpinnings of the notions of ubiquity and pervasive computing from a historical perspective. The current focus on these notions reflects the ever increasing impact of new media and the underlying complexity of computed function in the broad sense of ICT that have spread vertiginiously since Mark Weiser coined the term ‘pervasive’, e.g., digitalised sensoring, monitoring, effectuation, intelligence, and display. Whereas Weiser’s original perspective may seem fulfilled since computing is everywhere, in his and Seely Brown’s (1997) terms, ‘invisible’, on the horizon, ’calm’, it also points to a much more important and slightly different perspective: that of creative action upon novel forms of artifice. Most importantly for this article, ubiquity and pervasive computing is seen to point to the continuous existence throughout the computational heritage since the mid-20th century of a paradoxical distinction/complicity between the technical organis...
Linguagens Visuais : Literatura. Artes. Cultura, 2019
As we know from the idiom, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what
does that mean? What doe... more As we know from the idiom, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what
does that mean? What does it mean that the picture, allegedly by its visual nature, can be worth more? And more than words? Nevertheless, it is fair to argue that this kind of conundrum has been a driving force in the approach to the visual since the beginning of depiction. Fascination with the visual, what it is, what it can do, whether it can be trusted – for instance, in the shape of pictures – has proceeded along with hesitation. The visual brings something into the foreground, it appears, but at the cost of scepticism. ... A main issue seems to be the problem of intelligibility, of understanding
what the visual is, of what is evoked: the recurring and classic theme of aliquid statpro aliquo (i.e. something stands for something else) ...The idea of transvisuality seeks to develop a new approach to the visual beyond the issue of aliquid statpro aliquo. It aims at developing a practice-based
theory of visual expression as a kind of doing, which allows one to focus on the very transience coming hesitantly to the fore when saying a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Papers by Anders Michelsen
does that mean? What does it mean that the picture, allegedly by its visual nature, can be worth more? And more than words? Nevertheless, it is fair to argue that this kind of conundrum has been a driving force in the approach to the visual since the beginning of depiction. Fascination with the visual, what it is, what it can do, whether it can be trusted – for instance, in the shape of pictures – has proceeded along with hesitation. The visual brings something into the foreground, it appears, but at the cost of scepticism. ... A main issue seems to be the problem of intelligibility, of understanding
what the visual is, of what is evoked: the recurring and classic theme of aliquid statpro aliquo (i.e. something stands for something else) ...The idea of transvisuality seeks to develop a new approach to the visual beyond the issue of aliquid statpro aliquo. It aims at developing a practice-based
theory of visual expression as a kind of doing, which allows one to focus on the very transience coming hesitantly to the fore when saying a picture is worth a thousand words.
does that mean? What does it mean that the picture, allegedly by its visual nature, can be worth more? And more than words? Nevertheless, it is fair to argue that this kind of conundrum has been a driving force in the approach to the visual since the beginning of depiction. Fascination with the visual, what it is, what it can do, whether it can be trusted – for instance, in the shape of pictures – has proceeded along with hesitation. The visual brings something into the foreground, it appears, but at the cost of scepticism. ... A main issue seems to be the problem of intelligibility, of understanding
what the visual is, of what is evoked: the recurring and classic theme of aliquid statpro aliquo (i.e. something stands for something else) ...The idea of transvisuality seeks to develop a new approach to the visual beyond the issue of aliquid statpro aliquo. It aims at developing a practice-based
theory of visual expression as a kind of doing, which allows one to focus on the very transience coming hesitantly to the fore when saying a picture is worth a thousand words.