John Tresch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78128 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Tresch |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Tresch |
| ASSINATURA | TRESCH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Deliberating Aura
The aura – often taken as the energetic or spiritual envelope which surrounds living bodies – is an undeniably compelling and elusive object. It has been treated as a profoundly revealing indicator...
Big pictures after Dawn
This essay approaches the history of science's ‘big pictures’ through the study of cosmograms, or concrete representations of the universe as a whole. It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity , and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing an…
Afterword
This essay explores relations among algorithms, everyday experience, and contemporary systems of knowledge and production. It considers one kind of image as emblematic of late capitalism: online pictures of food, with particular attention paid to #avocadotoast. The essay traces such images’ implications and equivocations, indicating the technoscientific chains that produce both food and images. The reading thus operates at the level of code—an ex…
A Forest of Symbols
Eloge
Sickness and Sweetness and Power
Previous articleNext article FreeSickness and Sweetness and PowerJohn TreschJohn TreschWarburg Institute Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLate May 2020. The shelves are well stocked for the moment—with flour, pasta, toilet paper, sugar—though some items, like the cheap Turkish grape juice a…
The Compositor's Reversal
Known for his tales of mystery and horror, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was a meticulous, self-conscious literary craftsman. He was also skilled in the methods of science, engineering, and typesetting. Poe's writing reflected on printed letters' aesthetic effects, their ability to direct and divert meaning, and their power to build and alter worlds. In the printer's office, a limited set of material elements was manipulated to assemble infinite comb…
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge
Matter No More
Choses cosmiques et cosmogrammes de la technique
Les choses peuvent évoquer et même contenir tout un cosmos : c'est la thèse de Martin Heidegger dans certains de ses écrits tardifs, qui parlent des choses en tant que « rassemblements ». Mais son analyse des choses s'inscrit dans une critique soutenue de la technologie et de l'« époque des conceptions du monde ». Dans cet article, je considère les objets techniques, eux aussi, comme des « choses cosmiques » à la Heidegger. Pour contrebalancer se…
Another turn after ANT
This is a review, or preview, in the form of an interview, of Bruno Latour’s forthcoming book, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. We discuss his intellectual trajectory leading up to actor–network theory and the pluralistic philosophy underlying his new, ‘positive’ anthropology of modernity
Toward a New Organology
The Renaissance genre of organological treatises inventoried the forms and functions of musical instruments. This article proposes an update and expansion of the organological tradition, examining the discourses and practices surrounding both musical and scientific instruments. Drawing on examples from many periods and genres, we aim to capture instruments’ diverse ways of life. To that end we propose and describe a comparative “ethics of instrum…
Emmanuel Grimaud et Zaven Paré, Le jour où les robots mangeront des pommes
sur un terrain unique, voir par exemple Vanessa Manceron, « Grippe aviaire et disputes contagieuses.La Dombes dans la tourmente
Introduction
“A/V” seems to belong to the always-already obsolete. Even at the height of the craze for “audiovisual aids” in the mid-twentieth century, its association with the humble schoolroom and the “A/V geek” gave the acronym an air of the outmoded. Overtaken, in quick succession, by “multimedia” and “new media” at the end of the century, the audiovisual seems all the more rudimentary, remedial rather than remediated, or simply a minor component of large…
The Prophet and the Pendulum
During the French Second Republic—the volatile period between the 1848 Revolution and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup d’état—two striking performances fired the imaginations of Parisian audiences. The first, in 1849, was a return: after more than a decade, the master of the Parisian grand opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer, launched Le prophète, whose complex instrumentation and astounding visuals—including the unprecedented use of electric lighting—s…
The Machine Awakens
Automatons of the eighteenth century testified to a faith in the rationality of a clockwork universe. During the early nineteenth century, in the Restoration and July Monarchy, images of self-moving machines were newly associated with the physics of ethers, conversions, steam and electricity, as well as with animal magnetism; they also frequently had magical and religious associations. This new generation of fantastic automatons can be seen as a …
The Order of the Prophets
According to the editors of an influential text in the history of social science, “in the first half of the nineteenth century the expression series seemed destined to a great philosophical future”. The expression itself seems to encourage speculation on destiny. Elements laid out in a temporal sequence ask to be continued through the addition of subsequent terms. “Series” were particularly prominent in the French Restoration and July Monarchy (1…
The daguerreotype’s first frame
Technological World-Pictures
Martin Heidegger's notion of things as gatherings that disclose a world conveys the "thickness" of everyday objects. This essay extends his discussion of things-part of a sustained criticism of modern technology-to technological objects as well. As a corrective to his totalizing, even totalitarian, generalizations about "enframing" and "the age of the world-picture," and to a more widespread tendency among critics of modernity to present technolo…
In a solitary place
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
On Going Native
In this article, Thomas Kuhn’s theory of incommensurable paradigms learned through exemplars is discussed as a theory of acculturation akin to those of cultural anthropology. Yet his hermeneutic approach results in a classic problem, referred to here as the paradox of objective relativism. A solution, at least for observers of contemporary cultures, is drawn from Kuhn’s own writings: a fieldwork method of “going native.” It is argued that Kuhn’s …
Heredity is an Open System
La diversite methodologique et disciplinaire de l'approche de Gregory Bateson, la multiplicite de ses references, voire une identite et un positionnement academiques en dehors des courants dominants, ont fait que son oeuvre a ete pendant longtemps negligee. L'A. propose une introduction aux ecrits de Bateson afin d'en montrer l'importance et les potentialites heuristiques et scientifiques. Il retrace sa trajectoire intellectuelle et les origines …
The potent magic of verisimilitude’
The role and status of writing in scientific practice have become central concerns in the history and philosophy of science. Investigations into the rhetoric of scientific texts, the ‘language games’ of calculation, experimentation and proof, and the uses of textbooks, reports and specialized journals in the formation of scientific communities have all brought a growing awareness of what the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) heralded as ‘…
Toward a New Organology
The Renaissance genre of organological treatises inventoried the forms and functions of musical instruments. This article proposes an update and expansion of the organological tradition, examining the discourses and practices surrounding both musical and scientific instruments. Drawing on examples from many periods and genres, we aim to capture instruments’ diverse ways of life. To that end we propose and describe a comparative “ethics of instrum…
Technological World-Pictures
Martin Heidegger's notion of things as gatherings that disclose a world conveys the "thickness" of everyday objects. This essay extends his discussion of things-part of a sustained criticism of modern technology-to technological objects as well. As a corrective to his totalizing, even totalitarian, generalizations about "enframing" and "the age of the world-picture," and to a more widespread tendency among critics of modernity to present technolo…
Another turn after ANT
This is a review, or preview, in the form of an interview, of Bruno Latour’s forthcoming book, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. We discuss his intellectual trajectory leading up to actor–network theory and the pluralistic philosophy underlying his new, ‘positive’ anthropology of modernity
On Going Native
In this article, Thomas Kuhn’s theory of incommensurable paradigms learned through exemplars is discussed as a theory of acculturation akin to those of cultural anthropology. Yet his hermeneutic approach results in a classic problem, referred to here as the paradox of objective relativism. A solution, at least for observers of contemporary cultures, is drawn from Kuhn’s own writings: a fieldwork method of “going native.” It is argued that Kuhn’s …
The Prophet and the Pendulum
During the French Second Republic—the volatile period between the 1848 Revolution and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup d’état—two striking performances fired the imaginations of Parisian audiences. The first, in 1849, was a return: after more than a decade, the master of the Parisian grand opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer, launched Le prophète, whose complex instrumentation and astounding visuals—including the unprecedented use of electric lighting—s…
Heredity is an Open System
La diversite methodologique et disciplinaire de l'approche de Gregory Bateson, la multiplicite de ses references, voire une identite et un positionnement academiques en dehors des courants dominants, ont fait que son oeuvre a ete pendant longtemps negligee. L'A. propose une introduction aux ecrits de Bateson afin d'en montrer l'importance et les potentialites heuristiques et scientifiques. Il retrace sa trajectoire intellectuelle et les origines …
The potent magic of verisimilitude’
The role and status of writing in scientific practice have become central concerns in the history and philosophy of science. Investigations into the rhetoric of scientific texts, the ‘language games’ of calculation, experimentation and proof, and the uses of textbooks, reports and specialized journals in the formation of scientific communities have all brought a growing awareness of what the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) heralded as ‘…
Sickness and Sweetness and Power
Previous articleNext article FreeSickness and Sweetness and PowerJohn TreschJohn TreschWarburg Institute Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLate May 2020. The shelves are well stocked for the moment—with flour, pasta, toilet paper, sugar—though some items, like the cheap Turkish grape juice a…
Matter No More
Choses cosmiques et cosmogrammes de la technique
Les choses peuvent évoquer et même contenir tout un cosmos : c'est la thèse de Martin Heidegger dans certains de ses écrits tardifs, qui parlent des choses en tant que « rassemblements ». Mais son analyse des choses s'inscrit dans une critique soutenue de la technologie et de l'« époque des conceptions du monde ». Dans cet article, je considère les objets techniques, eux aussi, comme des « choses cosmiques » à la Heidegger. Pour contrebalancer se…
The Order of the Prophets
According to the editors of an influential text in the history of social science, “in the first half of the nineteenth century the expression series seemed destined to a great philosophical future”. The expression itself seems to encourage speculation on destiny. Elements laid out in a temporal sequence ask to be continued through the addition of subsequent terms. “Series” were particularly prominent in the French Restoration and July Monarchy (1…
The daguerreotype’s first frame
In a solitary place
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
The potent magic of verisimilitude’
The role and status of writing in scientific practice have become central concerns in the history and philosophy of science. Investigations into the rhetoric of scientific texts, the ‘language games’ of calculation, experimentation and proof, and the uses of textbooks, reports and specialized journals in the formation of scientific communities have all brought a growing awareness of what the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) heralded as ‘…
Heredity is an Open System
La diversite methodologique et disciplinaire de l'approche de Gregory Bateson, la multiplicite de ses references, voire une identite et un positionnement academiques en dehors des courants dominants, ont fait que son oeuvre a ete pendant longtemps negligee. L'A. propose une introduction aux ecrits de Bateson afin d'en montrer l'importance et les potentialites heuristiques et scientifiques. Il retrace sa trajectoire intellectuelle et les origines …
On Going Native
In this article, Thomas Kuhn’s theory of incommensurable paradigms learned through exemplars is discussed as a theory of acculturation akin to those of cultural anthropology. Yet his hermeneutic approach results in a classic problem, referred to here as the paradox of objective relativism. A solution, at least for observers of contemporary cultures, is drawn from Kuhn’s own writings: a fieldwork method of “going native.” It is argued that Kuhn’s …
In a solitary place
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
The daguerreotype’s first frame
Technological World-Pictures
Martin Heidegger's notion of things as gatherings that disclose a world conveys the "thickness" of everyday objects. This essay extends his discussion of things-part of a sustained criticism of modern technology-to technological objects as well. As a corrective to his totalizing, even totalitarian, generalizations about "enframing" and "the age of the world-picture," and to a more widespread tendency among critics of modernity to present technolo…
The Order of the Prophets
According to the editors of an influential text in the history of social science, “in the first half of the nineteenth century the expression series seemed destined to a great philosophical future”. The expression itself seems to encourage speculation on destiny. Elements laid out in a temporal sequence ask to be continued through the addition of subsequent terms. “Series” were particularly prominent in the French Restoration and July Monarchy (1…
Introduction
“A/V” seems to belong to the always-already obsolete. Even at the height of the craze for “audiovisual aids” in the mid-twentieth century, its association with the humble schoolroom and the “A/V geek” gave the acronym an air of the outmoded. Overtaken, in quick succession, by “multimedia” and “new media” at the end of the century, the audiovisual seems all the more rudimentary, remedial rather than remediated, or simply a minor component of large…
The Prophet and the Pendulum
During the French Second Republic—the volatile period between the 1848 Revolution and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup d’état—two striking performances fired the imaginations of Parisian audiences. The first, in 1849, was a return: after more than a decade, the master of the Parisian grand opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer, launched Le prophète, whose complex instrumentation and astounding visuals—including the unprecedented use of electric lighting—s…
The Machine Awakens
Automatons of the eighteenth century testified to a faith in the rationality of a clockwork universe. During the early nineteenth century, in the Restoration and July Monarchy, images of self-moving machines were newly associated with the physics of ethers, conversions, steam and electricity, as well as with animal magnetism; they also frequently had magical and religious associations. This new generation of fantastic automatons can be seen as a …
Emmanuel Grimaud et Zaven Paré, Le jour où les robots mangeront des pommes
sur un terrain unique, voir par exemple Vanessa Manceron, « Grippe aviaire et disputes contagieuses.La Dombes dans la tourmente
Another turn after ANT
This is a review, or preview, in the form of an interview, of Bruno Latour’s forthcoming book, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. We discuss his intellectual trajectory leading up to actor–network theory and the pluralistic philosophy underlying his new, ‘positive’ anthropology of modernity
Toward a New Organology
The Renaissance genre of organological treatises inventoried the forms and functions of musical instruments. This article proposes an update and expansion of the organological tradition, examining the discourses and practices surrounding both musical and scientific instruments. Drawing on examples from many periods and genres, we aim to capture instruments’ diverse ways of life. To that end we propose and describe a comparative “ethics of instrum…
Choses cosmiques et cosmogrammes de la technique
Les choses peuvent évoquer et même contenir tout un cosmos : c'est la thèse de Martin Heidegger dans certains de ses écrits tardifs, qui parlent des choses en tant que « rassemblements ». Mais son analyse des choses s'inscrit dans une critique soutenue de la technologie et de l'« époque des conceptions du monde ». Dans cet article, je considère les objets techniques, eux aussi, comme des « choses cosmiques » à la Heidegger. Pour contrebalancer se…
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge
Matter No More
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge
The Compositor's Reversal
Known for his tales of mystery and horror, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was a meticulous, self-conscious literary craftsman. He was also skilled in the methods of science, engineering, and typesetting. Poe's writing reflected on printed letters' aesthetic effects, their ability to direct and divert meaning, and their power to build and alter worlds. In the printer's office, a limited set of material elements was manipulated to assemble infinite comb…
Sickness and Sweetness and Power
Previous articleNext article FreeSickness and Sweetness and PowerJohn TreschJohn TreschWarburg Institute Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLate May 2020. The shelves are well stocked for the moment—with flour, pasta, toilet paper, sugar—though some items, like the cheap Turkish grape juice a…
Afterword
This essay explores relations among algorithms, everyday experience, and contemporary systems of knowledge and production. It considers one kind of image as emblematic of late capitalism: online pictures of food, with particular attention paid to #avocadotoast. The essay traces such images’ implications and equivocations, indicating the technoscientific chains that produce both food and images. The reading thus operates at the level of code—an ex…
A Forest of Symbols
Eloge
Big pictures after Dawn
This essay approaches the history of science's ‘big pictures’ through the study of cosmograms, or concrete representations of the universe as a whole. It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity , and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing an…
Deliberating Aura
The aura – often taken as the energetic or spiritual envelope which surrounds living bodies – is an undeniably compelling and elusive object. It has been treated as a profoundly revealing indicator...
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