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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Epistemophilia
LIBRARY SHELF: Against Method
Feyerabend, Paul Against Method (1993) FIRST LINE: “In such a world only miracles or revelation could reform our cosmology.” ICI SHELF: Science Theory ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-15-12)
LIBRARY SHELF: Conceptual Art and Painting
Harrison, Charles Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art and Language (2001) LAST LINE: “We hope only for those who will do their share of the work – be active in its conversation.” ICI SHELF: Art Movements ICI HISTORY: Today … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF – Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Cixous, Helene Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (2011) FIRST LINE: “We Need a Dead(wo)man To Begin” ICI SHELF: Philosophy ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (02-13-12)
LIBRARY SHELF: Spectral Evidence – The Photography of Trauma
Baer, Ulrich Spectral Evidence- The Photography of Trauma (2002) LAST LINE: “They open up a future that is not known and, because it is unknown, might yet be changed.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed … Continue reading
Art hIstory reaDing liSt
An image-text by ICI associate Lise Patt created for Part 2, a publication of the City University of New York, Graduate Center . Here, a typical syllabus for a class in art history is obscured by the cultural eclipse of … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Kandinsky, Wassily Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1977) FIRST LINE: “The whole triangle is moving slowly, almost invisibly forwards and upwards.” ICI SHELF: Art Texts ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (10-19-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Longitude
Sobel, Dava Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1996) LAST LINE: “ He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch” ICI … Continue reading
ICI Ephemera Kabinett
The well-worn but faithful drawers of the ICI’s Ephemera Kabinett. We call the material contained in these drawers ephemera because by they time it comes to us its initial purpose has expired; someone has decided to discard the object (or … Continue reading
Mundaneum
The telegraph room at the Mundaneum circa 1930, Paul Otlet’s ambitious project to create a master bibliography of all the world’s published knowledge. His interest in collecting magazines, journals, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera and not just books … Continue reading
Mnemosyne Atlas
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive. Continue reading
