Papers by Torsten Andreasen
Aarhus University Press eBooks, Apr 21, 2015
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Ecole polytechnique, Aug 23, 2019
This article proposes the affordance of the medium and the determination of the dispositif as two... more This article proposes the affordance of the medium and the determination of the dispositif as two distinct approaches to media or technology in general. Taking the dialectical tension between affordance and determination, between medium and dispositif, as its point of departure, the article explores Transmute Collective's Intimate Transactions (2005) as a problematic fusion of the two approaches. A historicising re-reading of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle with regard to current forms of digital control and modes of production then argues that contemporary alienation takes place within the digital interface as the zone of indistinction between affordance and determination, and that instead of designing liberating machines or inventing subjective evasions of the dispositif, emancipatory engagement requires a destitution of the interface.
The present article questions the construction of 'the contemporary' in digital cultural heritage... more The present article questions the construction of 'the contemporary' in digital cultural heritage archives as specific strategic articulations between past and present with regard to the future. A historical exploration of the discourse of cultural heritage presents three strategic axes supposedly executed by the archive. Via a fourfold problematisation of the notion of the contemporary these axes are further developed with regard to W.J.T. Mitchell and Georges Didi-Huberman's respective readings of Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne and Malraux's Musée imaginaire. The article finally questions the possibility of ascribing inherent epistemological, existential, empirical and geopolitical force to a given technological archival order. FCJ-174 fibreculturejournal.org FCJ-174 Constructing the contemporary via digital cultural heritage ture and Development-Summary Version.
The article examines Zero Dark Thirty as a narrative treatment of a traumatic moment of crisis. T... more The article examines Zero Dark Thirty as a narrative treatment of a traumatic moment of crisis. The article proposes perspectives on a narrative logic and the means by which this logic is executed. It does so by using Derrida's notion of spectrality as demonstrated in his readings of Shakespeare's Hamlet as well as his analysis of archival spectrality (Derrida, 2006 and Derrida, 1995). This Derridean perspective allows us to see the movie as an attempt to confront the horrors of crisis and bring the ensuing disequilibrium back into balance. This process, however, entails a complicated negotiation of spectrality that aims to preserve one's own ghostlike state while giving the enemy's various spectral forms a body so that he may be properly laid in earth.
MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, 2014
The Fibreculture Journal, 2015
Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, 2021
A review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of ... more A review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019).
The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Anmeldelse af:GIORGIO AGAMBENUndtagelsestilstandoversat af Ole JornÅrhus, 2009 (Philosophia). 163... more Anmeldelse af:GIORGIO AGAMBENUndtagelsestilstandoversat af Ole JornÅrhus, 2009 (Philosophia). 163 sider.
K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Robert Harris’ novel The Fear Index (2012) takes place over 24 hours on May 6 2010 where the life... more Robert Harris’ novel The Fear Index (2012) takes place over 24 hours on May 6 2010 where the life of eccentric former physicist Alex Hoffmann – now hedge fund owner and developer of trading algorithms – is threatened while the market collapses. It is unclear whether the trader suffers from a schizophrenic psychosis or whether his algorithm VIXAL-4 has actually overpowered him. The fund’s portfolio is “all out of shape” and Hoffmann’s personality “had grown lopsided”, as the algorithmic monster prevails via the complete breakdown of both the market and its maker. Via an analysis of The Fear Index and its references to romantic literature, the article examines the consequences of trade via algorithmic operations beyond human perception and cognition for the relation between cultural imagination and the future.
K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Anmeldelse af Mikkel Thorup: Du Skylder! Om moralsk & økonomisk gæld. Aarhus: Klim, 2016, 209 sider.
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