Greetings everybody. Chris has kindly given me access to the blog, so here's a picture to celebrate. It's Cha Jong Rye's Expose Exposed (2011).
Unfortunately, we can't give people direct access to the blog without giving them admin privileges, and its unwise to spread those around too liberally. However, if anyone wants to put something up here, either because you think it is relevant/interesting, or you want to propose things we could read and/or discuss at the Talk Studio, email me at [email protected]. Alternatively, feel free to discuss this stuff in the comments.
I'll leave you with a quote from Gilbert Simondon, whose careful critique of Aristotelian hylomorphism juxtaposes nicely with the above sculpture:
I'll leave you with a quote from Gilbert Simondon, whose careful critique of Aristotelian hylomorphism juxtaposes nicely with the above sculpture:
"Matter is matter because it receives a positive property which enables it to be modeled. To be modeled does not mean to undergo arbitrary displacements, but to order its plasticity according to definite forces that stabilize the deformation. The technical operation is the mediation between an inter-elementary unit and an infra-elementary unit. The pure form already contains gestures, and the primary matter has the capacity to become; the gestures contained in the form meet the becoming of the matter and modulate it. So that the matter can be modulated in its becoming, it is necessary that it is, like the clay at the time when the workman presses in the mold, of a deformable reality, i.e. of the reality which does not have a definite form, but all the indefinite forms, dynamically, because this reality, at the same time that it possesses inertia and consistency, is the agent of force, at least for a moment, and is identified point by point with this force; so that the clay fills the mold, it is not enough that it is plastic: it is necessary that it transmits the pressure that the workman presses on it, and that each point of its mass is a center of forces; clay is pushed in the mold which it fills; it propagates with it in its mass the energy of the workman. During the time of the filling, a potential energy actualizes itself."