Dag Petersson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dag Petersson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Petersson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7947-1272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Iconic Catastrophe and the Question of Nature
This essay deals with video footage depicting sudden onset natural disasters caught in the event. The attempt is to critically revisit the concept of nature that these images evoke, a concept that today is often bracketed due to its transcendental bearings (e.g. in Timothy Morton’s influential deconstruction of ecocriticism in Ecology Without Nature). Considering video to be part of the extended family of photographic veridiction techniques, this…
Iconic syntax
In this article, the post-war institutional interpretation of Jacob A. Riis' photographs is measured against their nineteenth-century capacity for mass media communication. The conventions that today determine the proper meaning and origin of these celebrated photos first emerged with an exhibition held in 1947. The ensuing, and dominant, mode of interpretation is shown here to be fundamentally at odds with the conditions for image use in early m…
Hegels spegel och Genets fotografi
Hegels spegel och Genets fotografi
Time and Technology
In this paper I focus on the concept of diagrams, as they have been appropriated from a Deleuzean discourse into the philosophy of Manuel DeLanda. For strategical reasons Gilles Deleuze reiterated on several occasions a caution against subjecting diagrams to history. Yet, this is exactly what DeLanda seems to invite us to do. To counter this tendency, without abandoning DeLanda's perspective, a new passage between the virtual plane of consistency…
Time and Technology
In this paper I focus on the concept of diagrams, as they have been appropriated from a Deleuzean discourse into the philosophy of Manuel DeLanda. For strategical reasons Gilles Deleuze reiterated on several occasions a caution against subjecting diagrams to history. Yet, this is exactly what DeLanda seems to invite us to do. To counter this tendency, without abandoning DeLanda's perspective, a new passage between the virtual plane of consistency…
Iconic syntax
In this article, the post-war institutional interpretation of Jacob A. Riis' photographs is measured against their nineteenth-century capacity for mass media communication. The conventions that today determine the proper meaning and origin of these celebrated photos first emerged with an exhibition held in 1947. The ensuing, and dominant, mode of interpretation is shown here to be fundamentally at odds with the conditions for image use in early m…
Hegels spegel och Genets fotografi
Hegels spegel och Genets fotografi
Time and Technology
In this paper I focus on the concept of diagrams, as they have been appropriated from a Deleuzean discourse into the philosophy of Manuel DeLanda. For strategical reasons Gilles Deleuze reiterated on several occasions a caution against subjecting diagrams to history. Yet, this is exactly what DeLanda seems to invite us to do. To counter this tendency, without abandoning DeLanda's perspective, a new passage between the virtual plane of consistency…
Iconic syntax
In this article, the post-war institutional interpretation of Jacob A. Riis' photographs is measured against their nineteenth-century capacity for mass media communication. The conventions that today determine the proper meaning and origin of these celebrated photos first emerged with an exhibition held in 1947. The ensuing, and dominant, mode of interpretation is shown here to be fundamentally at odds with the conditions for image use in early m…
Iconic Catastrophe and the Question of Nature
This essay deals with video footage depicting sudden onset natural disasters caught in the event. The attempt is to critically revisit the concept of nature that these images evoke, a concept that today is often bracketed due to its transcendental bearings (e.g. in Timothy Morton’s influential deconstruction of ecocriticism in Ecology Without Nature). Considering video to be part of the extended family of photographic veridiction techniques, this…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Perspective (graphical (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)