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Our Summer 2012 Special Issue on photography featured “Automat, Automatic, Automatism: Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on Photography and the Photographically Dependent Arts,” by Diarmuid Costello. Here we reprint the original article, with prepublication copy of responses by Jan Baetens and Charles Palermo, and a rejoinder by Costello. The entire discussion will appear in print and on JSTOR in Fall 2014.
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Diarmuid Costello, “Automat, Automatic, Automatism: Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on Photography and the Photographically Dependent Arts,” Critical Inquiry 38 (2012): 819-854.
Jan Baetens, “Reworking or Making Up? A Note on Photonovels in Costello's Approach to Medium Theory” (prepublication copy, appearing Fall 2014).
Charles Palermo, “Automatism” (prepublication copy, appearing Fall 2014).
Diarmuid Costello, “‘But I am killing them!’ Reply to Palermo and Baetens on Agency and Automatism” (prepublication copy, appearing Fall 2014).
This topics of this debate—including photography, agency and automatism—will be discussed at a two-day conference on photography and philosophy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13–14 March 2015. Our friends at nonsite.org have the call for papers, as well as related content.
James Coleman, Lapsus Exposure (1992–94). Projected images with synchronized audio narration. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. © James Coleman.