radical philosophy

Notes on the photographic image

Body without image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan

[T]he great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.

– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

The IMAGE-grip is dislocated and a more fundamental element emerges … in short, IMAGE is not the work’s supreme motive or unifying end.

– Hélio Oiticica, Block Experiments

In the immense emptiness and sepulchral …

This is not my body

People exposed, people as extras

Undoing the aesthetic image