Adam Lauder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1472670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Lauder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauder |
| SIGNATURE | LAUDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Indigenous Perspectivism and the Anti-Cartesian Animals of Lahontan and Leibniz
Baron de Lahontan’s cosmopolitical representations of the republic of beavers recounted to him by Indigenous interlocutors constitute a knowing intervention within period debates about the intelligent sociality of animals. Emulating earlier thinkers of the animal such as Montaigne, Lahontan drew on the techniques of philosophical skepticism to communicate the teachings of his Abenaki, Anishinaabeg, Meskwaki and Wendat hosts to European readers. A…
Rita Letendre's Astral Abstractions
This article proposes the first systematic analysis of the celestial narrative structures visualized by the hard-edge abstractions of Rita Letendre (b. 1928), elucidating their nimble translation of spoken word into nonrepresentational visual form. It explores the artist’s fluent negotiation between the star stories of her Abenaki and Iroquoian cultural heritage and modernist visual rhetorics. In their Indigenization of the 1969 Apollo moon landi…
Spiral and Vortex
Background The author argues for a reconsideration of Robert Smithson’s relationship to the spatial discourse and proto-media studies of Wyndham Lewis and his Canadian protégé Marshall McLuhan. Analysis Through a comparative reading of a lesser-known Lewis text and Smithson’s photo-essays and related earthworks, the article sets out to re-evaluate the American artist’s mock-Platonic “earth maps” as mobilizing cinematic and spatial metaphors deplo…
“Celebration of the Body”
Through a close reading of the 1976 artist’s book and exhibition catalogue “Celebration of the Body,” the N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.’s pioneering representations of the body’s “informationalization” are situated within the conceptual company’s creative reworking of Marshall McLuhan’s sensory media theories. In turn, McLuhan’s thought is located within a genealogy of physiological aesthetics that troubles conventional narratives of Conceptual art as a mo…
The ‘Information Landscape’ of Iain Baxter
This article examines the conceptual artist Iain Baxter&'s transformation of landscape conventions under the influence of media theory and western popularizations of Zen philosophy. The artist's McLuhan-inspired representations of ‘information’ provided a foundation for his prescient ecological critique of first-generation American Information Theory, beginning in the mid-1960s. This critical engagement with mainstream constructions of informatio…
Temporality as Bergsonian Critique in the Advertising and Visual Art of Bertram Brooker
This article explores time concepts derived from Henri Bergson as adapted by Canadian marketing theorist and visual artist Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) in articles and textbooks published during the 1920s and early 1930s. Inspired by Bergson’s critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, Brooker proposed innovative, participatory advertising strategies based on the French philosopher’s non-rational conception of time and the co-evolution of bod…
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Temporality as Bergsonian Critique in the Advertising and Visual Art of Bertram Brooker
This article explores time concepts derived from Henri Bergson as adapted by Canadian marketing theorist and visual artist Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) in articles and textbooks published during the 1920s and early 1930s. Inspired by Bergson’s critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, Brooker proposed innovative, participatory advertising strategies based on the French philosopher’s non-rational conception of time and the co-evolution of bod…
“Celebration of the Body”
Through a close reading of the 1976 artist’s book and exhibition catalogue “Celebration of the Body,” the N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.’s pioneering representations of the body’s “informationalization” are situated within the conceptual company’s creative reworking of Marshall McLuhan’s sensory media theories. In turn, McLuhan’s thought is located within a genealogy of physiological aesthetics that troubles conventional narratives of Conceptual art as a mo…
The ‘Information Landscape’ of Iain Baxter
This article examines the conceptual artist Iain Baxter&'s transformation of landscape conventions under the influence of media theory and western popularizations of Zen philosophy. The artist's McLuhan-inspired representations of ‘information’ provided a foundation for his prescient ecological critique of first-generation American Information Theory, beginning in the mid-1960s. This critical engagement with mainstream constructions of informatio…
Spiral and Vortex
Background The author argues for a reconsideration of Robert Smithson’s relationship to the spatial discourse and proto-media studies of Wyndham Lewis and his Canadian protégé Marshall McLuhan. Analysis Through a comparative reading of a lesser-known Lewis text and Smithson’s photo-essays and related earthworks, the article sets out to re-evaluate the American artist’s mock-Platonic “earth maps” as mobilizing cinematic and spatial metaphors deplo…
Rita Letendre's Astral Abstractions
This article proposes the first systematic analysis of the celestial narrative structures visualized by the hard-edge abstractions of Rita Letendre (b. 1928), elucidating their nimble translation of spoken word into nonrepresentational visual form. It explores the artist’s fluent negotiation between the star stories of her Abenaki and Iroquoian cultural heritage and modernist visual rhetorics. In their Indigenization of the 1969 Apollo moon landi…
Indigenous Perspectivism and the Anti-Cartesian Animals of Lahontan and Leibniz
Baron de Lahontan’s cosmopolitical representations of the republic of beavers recounted to him by Indigenous interlocutors constitute a knowing intervention within period debates about the intelligent sociality of animals. Emulating earlier thinkers of the animal such as Montaigne, Lahontan drew on the techniques of philosophical skepticism to communicate the teachings of his Abenaki, Anishinaabeg, Meskwaki and Wendat hosts to European readers. A…
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