Konstantinos Vassiliou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konstantinos Vassiliou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konstantinos |
| FAMILY NAME | Vassiliou |
| SIGNATURE | VASSILIOU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3412-2738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A synaptic common sense? McLuhan's tactility and electronic media rhythms
In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhen proposed that tactility would eventually become a determining factor in electronic media, leading to the formation of a new kind of "common sense." This article investigates whether by exploring this idea we are able to arrive at an alternative theoretical framework for understanding tactility, a framework that avoids the tactile-optic distinction and the understanding of tactility as a sensation primarily…
Anonymous art reconsidered
In museums, private collections, and public spaces, there is a myriad of artworks that remain anonymous. This article examines a specific subset of anonymous art, which seems to have a marginal role in collecting and in institutional practices: anonymous artworks from the modern and contemporary period that are neither museum artefacts nor public artworks. As it turns out, this kind of anonymous art is a puzzling category for the art institution …
Kant and Leroi-Gourhan
This article will try to reconfigure the aesthetical dimension of cosmopolitanism within global and interconnected experience. Starting its analysis from Kant, it will show that for the German philosopher cosmopolitanism was closely patterned on an interdependence of technical civilization and aesthetics, which would initiate a cosmopolitan matrix for the development of human faculties. The essay relates this interdependence to the theories of An…
Vitalization and spectacle in Thanassis Rentzis’s Bio-Graphia and Corpus
Thanassis Rentzis’s work offers an investigation into the nature of the cinematic medium and the constellations of industry, spectacle and subjectivity, most explicitly demonstrated in two films he made in the 1970s, Bio-Graphia (1975) and Corpus (1979). Largely influenced by collage and pre-cinematic techniques, these are the most essayistic of Rentzis’s films and they set out to trace human sensibilities that were central to the rise of audio-v…
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Vitalization and spectacle in Thanassis Rentzis’s Bio-Graphia and Corpus
Thanassis Rentzis’s work offers an investigation into the nature of the cinematic medium and the constellations of industry, spectacle and subjectivity, most explicitly demonstrated in two films he made in the 1970s, Bio-Graphia (1975) and Corpus (1979). Largely influenced by collage and pre-cinematic techniques, these are the most essayistic of Rentzis’s films and they set out to trace human sensibilities that were central to the rise of audio-v…
Kant and Leroi-Gourhan
This article will try to reconfigure the aesthetical dimension of cosmopolitanism within global and interconnected experience. Starting its analysis from Kant, it will show that for the German philosopher cosmopolitanism was closely patterned on an interdependence of technical civilization and aesthetics, which would initiate a cosmopolitan matrix for the development of human faculties. The essay relates this interdependence to the theories of An…
Anonymous art reconsidered
In museums, private collections, and public spaces, there is a myriad of artworks that remain anonymous. This article examines a specific subset of anonymous art, which seems to have a marginal role in collecting and in institutional practices: anonymous artworks from the modern and contemporary period that are neither museum artefacts nor public artworks. As it turns out, this kind of anonymous art is a puzzling category for the art institution …
A synaptic common sense? McLuhan's tactility and electronic media rhythms
In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhen proposed that tactility would eventually become a determining factor in electronic media, leading to the formation of a new kind of "common sense." This article investigates whether by exploring this idea we are able to arrive at an alternative theoretical framework for understanding tactility, a framework that avoids the tactile-optic distinction and the understanding of tactility as a sensation primarily…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work)