Urbanomic/Robin MacKay

Urbanomic/Robin MacKay: The Concept of Non-Photography
Philosopher and Director of Urbanomic Robin MacKay, gives a talk and reading from Francois Laruelle's book The Concept of Non-Photography, which develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy and art, as well as introducing the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle's 'non-philosophy'.

Arnolfini, (2011) Available at: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/1005a [Accessed on 18th October 2011 AT 10.45]

Over the last few decades, conceptual and post-conceptual art has tended to colonise the space of philosophy, whilst philosophy has retreated into academic isolation, and the sciences have continued to become more specialized and inaccessible. Urbanomic proposes a renegotiation of the relationship between philosophy science and art, on the model of an interrupted relay in which thinkers offer their conceptual resources for reflection on artists' practice, and artists in turn develop and synthesise them in unforeseen ways, stimulating a productive and unpredictable cycle of "research and development" subordinated neither to the norms of academic thinking nor to the mainstream discourses of art criticism.

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