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# 109
Recursion, Interrupted
Kodwo Eshun
The question of navigation, which forms the raison d’etre for this conference, is popularly understood as a quotidian practice of movement within computational networks. As a gestural economy compelled by digital interfaces, the habitual activity of navigation tends to recede from critical scrutiny. To begin to comprehend navigation’s historical ontology, phenomenal interfaciality, political imagination, and psychic life requires an effort of defamiliarization that begins by paying attention to this critical inattention.
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 7, 2020
Category
Philosophy, Image
Subjects
Academia, Temporality, Artificial intelligence, Algorithms
# 59
A Question They Never Stop Asking
Kodwo Eshun
Watching the artificial waves breaking on the mechanical shore in Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) prompted a question: Why did I, together with Anjalika Sagar, under the name of The Otolith Group, have to travel to Cinema Empire Sofil in Achrafieh, Beirut, in order to see nine Farocki films for the first time? 1 To answer such a question in March 2006 meant confronting the implications of Farocki’s absence from Britain’s film culture. The experience of being…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2014
Category
Film, Image
Subjects
Documentary