Edinburgh University Press
Seeing Degree Zero
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About this book
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Response/Abilities of Seeing
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Reading Barthes, Again
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Belledonne
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Neutral Seeing: Saenredam, Barthes, Burgin
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I was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin’s Projection Loops
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The Situation of Practice
159 - Part II: Image Degree Zero
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Painting, Photography, Projection
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The End of the Frame
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Camera as Object and Process
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Prairie
273 - Part III: Writerly Readings
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Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne
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Prairie (Argo)
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Photography as Rhythm: On Prairie
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The Work of Death in Burgin’s Belledonne
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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