A hesitation of things
This dissertation, A Hesitation of Things, was initially motivated by a temporal, Deleuzian, and Bergsonian enquiry, which appears to trouble notions of ontology and knowledge. It takes up the concept of Hesitation and, tracing a path through meditations on âMethodâ, âWritingâ, âHesitationâ, âHistoryâ and âFaithâ, while applying a method of creative, self-reflexive writing and âradical empiricismâ, produces a critique of âthingsâ as worldly and objective phenomena. The self-reflexivity of the writing leads to a recurring and prolonged dialogue with method, form and process - particularly in the early, âhesitantâ chapters - while also discussing effects of digital computing on the production of philosophy and History. The dissertation utilises visual reference throughout, implicating a history of painting and visual culture. The canon is mostly modern while the dissertation regularly questions modernity. Nietzsche is perhaps the dissertationâs main protagonist, complemented by Nietzschean thinkers including Derrida and Deleuze. Literary figures, such as Kafka, Proust and Kazuo Ishiguro play significant parts while W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin are referred to as historians
O'Kane, Paul Brendan
Fine Art
A hesitation of things. This dissertation, A Hesitation of Things, was initially motivated by a temporal, Deleuzian, and Bergsonian enquiry, which appears to trouble notions of ontology and knowledge. It takes up the concept of Hesitation and, tracing a path through meditations on âMethodâ, âWritingâ, âHesitationâ, âHistoryâ and âFaithâ, while applying a method of creative, self-reflexive writing and âradical empiricismâ, produces a critique of âthingsâ as worldly and objective phenomena. The self-reflexivity of the writing leads to a recurring and prolonged dialogue with method, form and process - particularly in the early, âhesitantâ chapters - while also discussing effects of digital computing on the production of philosophy and History. The dissertation utilises visual reference throughout, implicating a history of painting and visual culture. The canon is mostly modern while the dissertation regularly questions modernity. Nietzsche is perhaps the dissertationâs main protagonist, complemented by Nietzschean thinkers including Derrida and Deleuze. Literary figures, such as Kafka, Proust and Kazuo Ishiguro play significant parts while W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin are referred to as historians
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