1. speculative photo sharing
Questions:
What are the possible qualities of speculative aesthetics? for example:
out-of-place,
out-of-time,
hidden truth,
object's viewpoint,
other unknown actor's viewpoint,
other species viewpoints
withdrawal,
resistance,
object's enjoyment (allure, emotion),
non-human (machine, AI)'s perspective,
strange object-to-object relationship,
...
Constructively identify at least 20 qualities by concluding classmates' sharing.
2. Speculative aesthetics
Speculative Aesthetics and Object-Oriented Inquiry (OOI),” by N. Katherine Hayles
Graham Harman: “Aesthetics as First Philosophy"
p. 159:
The essential move here is to identify aesthetics
with “enjoyment” (Levinas’s term) or “allure” (Harman’s) so
that the sensual qualities of objects in which other objects
“bathe” is understood as an essentially aesthetic response.
Thus aesthetics is generalised so that it applies not only to
humans but to all objects, including inanimate ones.
p. 167:
Following Harman, Bogost accepts that “all objects recede
interminably into themselves,” which implies that putting
things “at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us
to admit that they do not exist just for us.”
p. 168:
"we never understand the alien experience, we
only ever reach for it metaphorically.”
p. 169:
"Where I begin to depart from Bogost and Harman is on the issue
of how objects manifest themselves. Whereas they emphasise
an object’s allure, the attraction it emanates for other objects,
more important in my experience is the resistance objects
offer to human manipulation and understanding"
"The difference between resistance
and acquiescence is that acquiescence is always metaphoric,
whereas resistance is decisive: “Whatever I am, I’m not that,”
an object can respond to human probing."
p. 178.
"I ended by
arguing that the way to escape anthropocentrism is precisely
through an imaginative projection into the worldviews of
other objects and beings, based on evidence about their ways
of being in the world,"
