A Questionnaire on Materialisms
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Author(s)
Apter, Emily
Atkins, Ed
Avanessian, Armen
Brown, Bill
Bruno, Giuliana
Bryan-Wilson, Julia
Burnett, D. Graham
Chen, Mel Y.
Cole, Andrew
Cox, Christoph
Date Issued
October 2016
Journal
October
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Apter, Emily, Ed Atkins, Armen Avanessian, Bill Brown, Giuliana Bruno, Julia Bryan-Wilson, D. Graham Burnett, et al. “A Questionnaire on Materialisms.” October 155 (January 2016): 3–110. © 2016 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract
Recent philosophical tendencies of “Actor-Network Theory,” “Object-Oriented Ontology,” and “Speculative Realism” have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects—from Graham Harman and Alexander R. Galloway to Armen Avanessian and Patricia Falguières to Ed Atkins and Amie Siegel—to explore what the rewards and risks of assigning agency to objects may be, and how, or if, such new materialisms can be productive for making and thinking about art today.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_A_00243
