Documenting and expanding upon a roundtable discussion on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics; this discussion ranges from contemporary arts relation to the aesthetic; to accelerationism and abstraction; logic and design.From varied perspectives of philosophy; art and design; participants examine the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the massive planetary media network within which it now exists; and consider how the aesthetic enables new modes of knowledge by processing sensory data through symbolic formalisms and technological devices.
2015-10-08 2015-10-08File Name: B016CXG430
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