Kris Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kris Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kris |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
This Is Fine
In the archive of memes, it’s striking that one of the most famous and enduring memes, This is Fine, is rarely appropriated. Repeated, yes, enduring far beyond most meme’s short life spans.1 But it is rarely altered or adapted or personalized, except through its insertion in different contexts. This flies in the face of the prevalent and probably correct way to understand memes: through their amenability to adaptation, appropriation, and reuse—th…
"Kris Cohen. Review of "Alma W. Thomas: "Everything Is Beautiful" by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz
Bracket
In Leo Bersani's essay "Sociality and Sexuality," bracketing emerges as a critical procedure for sensing and for practicing nonsovereign forms of sociality. Following Foucault's desire to discover modes of relation, forms of the homosexual, that do not yet have a world for their reception, Bersani brackets the literature on sociality and sexuality that has come before, including his own, which variously posits the homosexual and the queer as figu…
Literally, Ourselves
The Painter of Dematerialization
This article begins by re-conceiving dematerialization in relation to On Kawara’s Date Paintings (1966–2009) rather than to the Conceptualist practices that first prompted Lippard and Chandler to invoke the term in 1968. In this view, the concept’s synchronic link to a generation of artists unfolds into a longer history. In such a history, phases are marked by technologies that change the material basis of the property form, thereby prompting int…
A Welcome for Blogs
It is with good reason, says Sancho to the squire with the great nose, that I pretend to have a judgment in wine: This is a quality hereditary in our family. Two of my kinsmen were once called in t
What does the photoblog want
Theoretical accounts of photography have persistently emphasized, departed from and returned to the issue of the Real, thereby positioning the Real behind or at the heart of what photography purportedly is and does. But these familiar and familiarizing consistencies in the writing about photography do not make photographs less of a paradox at the level of being (what they are), or less equivocal at the level of their expressive content (what they…
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Users
I begin with some questions: how have the theories and methods which subtend design research been changed by their migration from academy to industry? How have they adapted to their new commercial culture? What languages and customs have they had to acquire to fit in? To address these questions, I consider a facet of design research which I think most problematically bears the marks of this passage: how we choose who we will study. I go on to thi…
Internet in Everyday Life
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Users
I begin with some questions: how have the theories and methods which subtend design research been changed by their migration from academy to industry? How have they adapted to their new commercial culture? What languages and customs have they had to acquire to fit in? To address these questions, I consider a facet of design research which I think most problematically bears the marks of this passage: how we choose who we will study. I go on to thi…
What does the photoblog want
Theoretical accounts of photography have persistently emphasized, departed from and returned to the issue of the Real, thereby positioning the Real behind or at the heart of what photography purportedly is and does. But these familiar and familiarizing consistencies in the writing about photography do not make photographs less of a paradox at the level of being (what they are), or less equivocal at the level of their expressive content (what they…
A Welcome for Blogs
It is with good reason, says Sancho to the squire with the great nose, that I pretend to have a judgment in wine: This is a quality hereditary in our family. Two of my kinsmen were once called in t
Literally, Ourselves
What does the photoblog want
Theoretical accounts of photography have persistently emphasized, departed from and returned to the issue of the Real, thereby positioning the Real behind or at the heart of what photography purportedly is and does. But these familiar and familiarizing consistencies in the writing about photography do not make photographs less of a paradox at the level of being (what they are), or less equivocal at the level of their expressive content (what they…
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Users
I begin with some questions: how have the theories and methods which subtend design research been changed by their migration from academy to industry? How have they adapted to their new commercial culture? What languages and customs have they had to acquire to fit in? To address these questions, I consider a facet of design research which I think most problematically bears the marks of this passage: how we choose who we will study. I go on to thi…
Internet in Everyday Life
A Welcome for Blogs
It is with good reason, says Sancho to the squire with the great nose, that I pretend to have a judgment in wine: This is a quality hereditary in our family. Two of my kinsmen were once called in t
The Painter of Dematerialization
This article begins by re-conceiving dematerialization in relation to On Kawara’s Date Paintings (1966–2009) rather than to the Conceptualist practices that first prompted Lippard and Chandler to invoke the term in 1968. In this view, the concept’s synchronic link to a generation of artists unfolds into a longer history. In such a history, phases are marked by technologies that change the material basis of the property form, thereby prompting int…
Literally, Ourselves
"Kris Cohen. Review of "Alma W. Thomas: "Everything Is Beautiful" by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz
Bracket
In Leo Bersani's essay "Sociality and Sexuality," bracketing emerges as a critical procedure for sensing and for practicing nonsovereign forms of sociality. Following Foucault's desire to discover modes of relation, forms of the homosexual, that do not yet have a world for their reception, Bersani brackets the literature on sociality and sexuality that has come before, including his own, which variously posits the homosexual and the queer as figu…
This Is Fine
In the archive of memes, it’s striking that one of the most famous and enduring memes, This is Fine, is rarely appropriated. Repeated, yes, enduring far beyond most meme’s short life spans.1 But it is rarely altered or adapted or personalized, except through its insertion in different contexts. This flies in the face of the prevalent and probably correct way to understand memes: through their amenability to adaptation, appropriation, and reuse—th…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works)