Jared Butler For a decade, Jonathan Field has recreated media images in a body of work entitled Maxwell’s Demon. Making massive, spectral copies by inserting steel pins into black velvet or neoprene rubber grounds, Field has developed a critique of…
Category: MOLECULAR
The Microphysics of Desire
Gregory Minissale Needless to say, an artwork can contract and expand, speed up or slacken molecular multiplicities of any kind whatsoever, and in its own peculiar way. And single artworks can loosely hang together in groups creating a general relativity.…
The Buckling of Abstraction: Matteo Pasquinelli’s Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons
Dave Mesing Conducting an experiment with the materials of French poststructuralism and Italian post-operaismo theory, Matteo Pasquinelli develops a vital materialist critique of digital culture in his book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons. Pasquinelli argues that ‘a sub-religion…