{"id":1206,"date":"2012-05-15T00:44:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1206"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:44:41","slug":"matthew-shannon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/matthew-shannon\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Non-photography<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cNon-photography\u201d is a term proposed recently by French philosopher Fran\u00e7ois Laruelle in the book of that name, published in 2011, to describe his innovative method of thinking about photography, a method alien to and disruptive of all prior discussions on the photographic. The \u201cnon\u201d in this term is the stranger in the room; it is the one we don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Throughout his career Laruelle has developed a fractal, axiomatic \u201cnon-philosophy\u201d which he has now extended to the aesthetics of photography. Non-photography forces us to think interns of a photographic-in-itself: a non-relational, non-photographer centred method of thinking the existence of the photographic in parallel to the world \u2013 rather than as a reflection of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thinking non-photographically is not easy. Can non-photography be used practically? Or does it, as one critic has said, &#8216;leave us strafed on a bleak moon in a distant galaxy, with odd-looking creatures?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This paper will give an outline of Laruelle\u2019s concept of non-photography and propose one way in which this thinking can be activated: with an examination of what we might call \u201caccidental photography\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-photography \u00a0 \u201cNon-photography\u201d is a term proposed recently by French philosopher Fran\u00e7ois Laruelle in the book of that name, published in 2011, to describe his innovative method of thinking about photography, a method alien to and disruptive of all prior discussions on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206\/revisions\/1265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}