The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice

Contents\nForeword\nSpeaking of Things – An Introduction\nThe Autonomous Aesthetic of Allure: Mary Bauermeister’s Needless Needles and Graham Harman’s Object Philosophy\nSimply things: A phenomenological interpretation from technology to poetry\nOrigins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Painting According to Heidegger’s Truth\nObject as Symbol: Baudrillard’s Thanatopoietic Form\nCo-Production: Towards a Relational Ontology of Aesthetic Objects\nCorrespondences: Exploring the Echoes of Jack Spicer’s Poetics in the Paintings of Matt Connors\nThe Object of Non-Aesthetics\nSolid Gifts: Seven Lessons from the Fossil\nMassimo Bartolini’s Untitled Untitled (2001): The Strategy for Visualizing the Hyperspace\nThe Lure of Absence: Can there be Process without Artists?\nA noisy love affair: The Language of Things in the Works of Mark Leckey and Musa paradisiaca\nThe photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself\nObsolescence and reinvention: the case study of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva\nA Two-Way Mirror: Narcissism and Surveillance from the Closed Circuit to the Network\nShape of Things, Shapes of Time\nEl Anatsui “Triumphant Scale”: Material Realism and the Logic of Things\nAuthors