Robin Mackay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Mackay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market
Gordon Matta-Clark: ‘Somewhere Outside the Law’
‘Nobody could construct buildings the way Gordon destructed them’, we read in the issue of Flash Art published shortly after the artist’s death. In this article the author sets out from the at once physical and social violence of Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions (their ‘cleanlined brutality’) so as to introduce the relation – and to introduce the negation in the relation – between Matta-Clark and the architects whom he places ‘at opposite ends …
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani?s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
The Contingency of the Laws of Nature
My starting point is Hume's sceptical doubt as to the necessity of causal connection. This doubt consists in challenging the metaphysician to found rationally the necessity of the causal relation-that is to say, to prove that it is necessary that the same effects should always follow from the same causes. According to Hume, this challenge cannot be met, because the only instances that could possibly rationally found causal necessity are experienc…
Body Count
Unknown Deleuze
Between Critique And Metaphysics: Science in Bergson and Brunschvicg
For Bergson (1859–1941) as for Brunschvicg (1869–1944), science is not an accomplished fact or a given consisting only of a series of objective data about the world, but an ongoing task, a conquest
The Contingency of the Laws of Nature
My starting point is Hume's sceptical doubt as to the necessity of causal connection. This doubt consists in challenging the metaphysician to found rationally the necessity of the causal relation-that is to say, to prove that it is necessary that the same effects should always follow from the same causes. According to Hume, this challenge cannot be met, because the only instances that could possibly rationally found causal necessity are experienc…
Between Critique And Metaphysics: Science in Bergson and Brunschvicg
For Bergson (1859–1941) as for Brunschvicg (1869–1944), science is not an accomplished fact or a given consisting only of a series of objective data about the world, but an ongoing task, a conquest
Between Critique And Metaphysics: Science in Bergson and Brunschvicg
For Bergson (1859–1941) as for Brunschvicg (1869–1944), science is not an accomplished fact or a given consisting only of a series of objective data about the world, but an ongoing task, a conquest
Unknown Deleuze
Body Count
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani?s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
The Contingency of the Laws of Nature
My starting point is Hume's sceptical doubt as to the necessity of causal connection. This doubt consists in challenging the metaphysician to found rationally the necessity of the causal relation-that is to say, to prove that it is necessary that the same effects should always follow from the same causes. According to Hume, this challenge cannot be met, because the only instances that could possibly rationally found causal necessity are experienc…
Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market
Gordon Matta-Clark: ‘Somewhere Outside the Law’
‘Nobody could construct buildings the way Gordon destructed them’, we read in the issue of Flash Art published shortly after the artist’s death. In this article the author sets out from the at once physical and social violence of Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions (their ‘cleanlined brutality’) so as to introduce the relation – and to introduce the negation in the relation – between Matta-Clark and the architects whom he places ‘at opposite ends …
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