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In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the editors' ongoing collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors and Burgin, a series of collaborative texts with Burgin and four commissioned essays concerned with the relationship between Barthes and Burgin in the context of the spectatorship of art. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin's long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, 'Belledonne' and 'Prairie', which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic.

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Author:   Ryan Bishop (Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) ,  Sunil Manghani (Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474431422

ISBN 10:   1474431429
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   04 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Response/abilities of SeeingRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani Reading Barthes, AgainVictor Burgin and Sunil Manghani BelledonneVictor Burgin Part 1: Degrees and Variations Saenredam, Barthes, BurginSunil Manghani I was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin’s Projection LoopsRyan Bishop The Situation of PracticeVictor Burgin Part 2: Image Zero Degree Painting, Photography, ProjectionRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani The End of the FrameVictor Burgin Camera as Object and ProcessRyan Bishop, Sean Cubitt and Victor Burgin PrairieVictor Burgin Part 3: Writerly Readings Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne Christine Berthin Prairie (Argo)Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary Photography as Rhythm: On PrairieDomietta Torlasco The Work of Death in Burgin’s BelledonneGordon Hon Notes on Contributors Index

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Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP). Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

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