Peter Buse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1031645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Buse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Buse |
| SIGNATURE | BUSE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8350-4228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Letters to Belvedere
This paper examines the role of participatory cinephilia in the resistance to censorship near the end of the Franco regime in Spain (1968–1974). It takes as its case study the letters pages, or Consultorio, of “Mr Belvedere” in the commercial Barcelona-based film magazine Nuevo Fotogramas. Reconstructing as much as possible the identities and concerns of those who wrote to the magazine, the paper concentrates above all on the distinctive style an…
On ludic photography
This article explores "the play element in photography", to adapt a key phrase from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938). The context for this exploration is the melancholic paradigm that dominates much of contemporary writing and thinking about vernacular or popular photography, a paradigm that emphasises memory, death and mourning, at the expense of other practices and dispositions, not least the ludic. It notes that the existing literature on p…
Narcissism in Toronto
This article conducts a genealogy of Freud’s never fully developed concept of the narcissism of minor differences, which first appears in his writings in 1917, and then three more times with slight variations. It starts with an earlier articulation of the concept in 1908 in a letter from Ernest Jones in Canada to Freud. The article outlines the background to Jones’ presence in Canada and his assessment of Canadians, and goes on to argue that in i…
New Media Archaeologies
The Dog and the Parakeet
This article explores the place of the animal and animals in Lacanian psychoanalysis, arguing that the standard accounts of Lacan on the animal, including the influential intervention by Derrida, depend almost exclusively on the Écrits and Lacan’s early seminars, overlooking late Lacanian texts and seminars. It starts by examining perplexing instances in Lacan’s seminar of “silliness” or “stupidity” – what he himself calls bêtises. The bêtise, wh…
On the diagonal
This article addresses the theme of the special issuethat which is right in front of our eyes -by way of the problem of reading Jacques Lacan's seminars.It begins with a brief publication history of the seminars, including the centrality to this process of their editor, Jacques-Alain Miller, as well as some of the controversies and disputes arising from this editorship.It then goes on to consider how Lacan in the seminars rejects the classical cr…
Introduction
Introduction: Right in Front of our EyesOne of the most popular, because easy to understand, products of contemporary cognitive psychology is the so-called 'McGurk effect'.The effect was first outlined in Nature in 1976 by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald, who discovered by chance the potential for visual cues to interfere with auditory information in the perceptual field.Experiments have shown that if a sound recording of the same repeated phonem…
The camera and the press
Richard Godwin, cultural critic for the Evening Standard, dedicated his column of 15 October, 2013 to the lamentable ubiquity of photo-sharing and photo-editing platforms and apps. Where once amate
The Polaroid Image as Photo-Object
This article is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research done at the Polaroid Corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself. It identifies two cultural practices engendered by Polaroid photography, which, at the point of its extinction, has briefly flared into visibility again. It argues that these practices are mistaken as novel but are in fact rediscoveries of practices tha…
Polaroid into digital
This essay is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research carried out at the Polaroid corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself in Waltham and Concord, Massachusetts. It sets out to make an addition to the understanding of the new social practices generated by digital photography, but does so by examining an old technology rendered obsolete by the new. It outlines the recent…
Polaroid, Aperture and Ansel Adams
This article takes the history of Polaroid photography as an opportunity to question a presupposition that underpins much thinking on photography: the split between industrial (ie useful) applications of photography and its fine art (ie aesthetic) manifestations. Critics as ideologically opposed as Peter Bunnell and Abigail Solomon-Godeau steadfastly maintain the existence of this separation of utility and aesthetics in photography, even if they …
Surely Fades Away
Photography has always had a precarious relation to cultural value: as Walter Benjamin put it, those who argued for photography as an art were bringing it to a tribunal it was in the process of overthrowing. This article examines the case of Polaroid, a company and technology that, after Kodak and prior to digital, contributed most to the mass- amateurization of photography, and therefore, one might expect, to its cultural devaluation. It conside…
Esto no es un juego, es acción mutante ”
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Ghosts
Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical ess
Ghosts
"Ghosts do exist, maybe not in a physical sense, but certainly as a means of expressing our concerns for life and death, the passing of time, and the conscious and unconscious minds. The powerful metaphor of haunting has been used as an intellectual tool by writers and thinkers such as Marx, Freud and Derrida in the fields of politics, psychoanalysis and philosophy respectively. Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is a collection of e…
Ghosts
Ghosts
Archaeology of an acting style
This article argues that different acting techniques depend on different theories of the 'subject', and that consequently, every theory of acting is also a theory of subjectivity. Recent Oscar-winning performances emphasize roles where the actor must play someone supposedly incomplete, handicapped, in other words not 'an entirely autonomous' subject. However, it is argued that the acting technique used to realize these parts is in fact a decidedl…
Nintendo and Telos
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Nintendo and Telos
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Polaroid into digital
This essay is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research carried out at the Polaroid corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself in Waltham and Concord, Massachusetts. It sets out to make an addition to the understanding of the new social practices generated by digital photography, but does so by examining an old technology rendered obsolete by the new. It outlines the recent…
Surely Fades Away
Photography has always had a precarious relation to cultural value: as Walter Benjamin put it, those who argued for photography as an art were bringing it to a tribunal it was in the process of overthrowing. This article examines the case of Polaroid, a company and technology that, after Kodak and prior to digital, contributed most to the mass- amateurization of photography, and therefore, one might expect, to its cultural devaluation. It conside…
On ludic photography
This article explores "the play element in photography", to adapt a key phrase from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938). The context for this exploration is the melancholic paradigm that dominates much of contemporary writing and thinking about vernacular or popular photography, a paradigm that emphasises memory, death and mourning, at the expense of other practices and dispositions, not least the ludic. It notes that the existing literature on p…
On the diagonal
This article addresses the theme of the special issuethat which is right in front of our eyes -by way of the problem of reading Jacques Lacan's seminars.It begins with a brief publication history of the seminars, including the centrality to this process of their editor, Jacques-Alain Miller, as well as some of the controversies and disputes arising from this editorship.It then goes on to consider how Lacan in the seminars rejects the classical cr…
Archaeology of an acting style
This article argues that different acting techniques depend on different theories of the 'subject', and that consequently, every theory of acting is also a theory of subjectivity. Recent Oscar-winning performances emphasize roles where the actor must play someone supposedly incomplete, handicapped, in other words not 'an entirely autonomous' subject. However, it is argued that the acting technique used to realize these parts is in fact a decidedl…
Nintendo and Telos
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Archaeology of an acting style
This article argues that different acting techniques depend on different theories of the 'subject', and that consequently, every theory of acting is also a theory of subjectivity. Recent Oscar-winning performances emphasize roles where the actor must play someone supposedly incomplete, handicapped, in other words not 'an entirely autonomous' subject. However, it is argued that the acting technique used to realize these parts is in fact a decidedl…
Ghosts
Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical ess
Ghosts
"Ghosts do exist, maybe not in a physical sense, but certainly as a means of expressing our concerns for life and death, the passing of time, and the conscious and unconscious minds. The powerful metaphor of haunting has been used as an intellectual tool by writers and thinkers such as Marx, Freud and Derrida in the fields of politics, psychoanalysis and philosophy respectively. Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is a collection of e…
Ghosts
Ghosts
Esto no es un juego, es acción mutante ”
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Surely Fades Away
Photography has always had a precarious relation to cultural value: as Walter Benjamin put it, those who argued for photography as an art were bringing it to a tribunal it was in the process of overthrowing. This article examines the case of Polaroid, a company and technology that, after Kodak and prior to digital, contributed most to the mass- amateurization of photography, and therefore, one might expect, to its cultural devaluation. It conside…
Polaroid, Aperture and Ansel Adams
This article takes the history of Polaroid photography as an opportunity to question a presupposition that underpins much thinking on photography: the split between industrial (ie useful) applications of photography and its fine art (ie aesthetic) manifestations. Critics as ideologically opposed as Peter Bunnell and Abigail Solomon-Godeau steadfastly maintain the existence of this separation of utility and aesthetics in photography, even if they …
The Polaroid Image as Photo-Object
This article is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research done at the Polaroid Corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself. It identifies two cultural practices engendered by Polaroid photography, which, at the point of its extinction, has briefly flared into visibility again. It argues that these practices are mistaken as novel but are in fact rediscoveries of practices tha…
Polaroid into digital
This essay is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research carried out at the Polaroid corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself in Waltham and Concord, Massachusetts. It sets out to make an addition to the understanding of the new social practices generated by digital photography, but does so by examining an old technology rendered obsolete by the new. It outlines the recent…
The camera and the press
Richard Godwin, cultural critic for the Evening Standard, dedicated his column of 15 October, 2013 to the lamentable ubiquity of photo-sharing and photo-editing platforms and apps. Where once amate
On the diagonal
This article addresses the theme of the special issuethat which is right in front of our eyes -by way of the problem of reading Jacques Lacan's seminars.It begins with a brief publication history of the seminars, including the centrality to this process of their editor, Jacques-Alain Miller, as well as some of the controversies and disputes arising from this editorship.It then goes on to consider how Lacan in the seminars rejects the classical cr…
Introduction
Introduction: Right in Front of our EyesOne of the most popular, because easy to understand, products of contemporary cognitive psychology is the so-called 'McGurk effect'.The effect was first outlined in Nature in 1976 by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald, who discovered by chance the potential for visual cues to interfere with auditory information in the perceptual field.Experiments have shown that if a sound recording of the same repeated phonem…
The Dog and the Parakeet
This article explores the place of the animal and animals in Lacanian psychoanalysis, arguing that the standard accounts of Lacan on the animal, including the influential intervention by Derrida, depend almost exclusively on the Écrits and Lacan’s early seminars, overlooking late Lacanian texts and seminars. It starts by examining perplexing instances in Lacan’s seminar of “silliness” or “stupidity” – what he himself calls bêtises. The bêtise, wh…
New Media Archaeologies
Narcissism in Toronto
This article conducts a genealogy of Freud’s never fully developed concept of the narcissism of minor differences, which first appears in his writings in 1917, and then three more times with slight variations. It starts with an earlier articulation of the concept in 1908 in a letter from Ernest Jones in Canada to Freud. The article outlines the background to Jones’ presence in Canada and his assessment of Canadians, and goes on to argue that in i…
On ludic photography
This article explores "the play element in photography", to adapt a key phrase from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938). The context for this exploration is the melancholic paradigm that dominates much of contemporary writing and thinking about vernacular or popular photography, a paradigm that emphasises memory, death and mourning, at the expense of other practices and dispositions, not least the ludic. It notes that the existing literature on p…
Letters to Belvedere
This paper examines the role of participatory cinephilia in the resistance to censorship near the end of the Franco regime in Spain (1968–1974). It takes as its case study the letters pages, or Consultorio, of “Mr Belvedere” in the commercial Barcelona-based film magazine Nuevo Fotogramas. Reconstructing as much as possible the identities and concerns of those who wrote to the magazine, the paper concentrates above all on the distinctive style an…
Art (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Photography (5 works)