The Roland Barthes Reading Group is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Helen Clarke, L... more The Roland Barthes Reading Group is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Susannah Gent, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppe, Rachel Smith. For four years we have been reading The Preparation of the Novel by Roland Barthes, the collection of the series of lectures he gave at the College de France between 1978 and 1980, completed shortly before his death in 1981. He declared his intention to write a novel, and in this pedagogical experiment, explores the trial of novel writing. In this book the authors riff on a tiny remark Barthes makes: a. Example (from personal experience) –> I want to narrate a party: as a rule, anecdotal material: people I’d not met before, particular characters, conversations, rituals, etc. But when I set about telling the story, I find myself weighed down by the ‘necessary’ details (necessary for the logic of the narrative) that I personally find it too tiresome to recount. I only need ‘retain’ two notations fr...
The dissertation proposes a reading of the photographic work of Sophie Calle (1980-1999), which d... more The dissertation proposes a reading of the photographic work of Sophie Calle (1980-1999), which draws on the writings of Walter Benjamin principally 'On Some Motifs in Baudelaire', and Georg Simmel, for their theses on the effect of city-dwelling on the figure of modernity. The four pieces discussed are presented as a representation of the female experience as modern urban subject. Using the work of theorists Miriam Hansen, Rita Felski and Janet Wolff, it will examine the use of the auto-biographic tradition to, to present a body of art work which problematises reading in it's combination of the texts of photographic image and printed narrative (it's storytelling devices). In do so, it investigates the possibility of the reinstatement of Benjamin's notion of aura, through Sophie Calle's work.
This paper outlines the scope of my doctoral thesis, as of my first year of study. My research i... more This paper outlines the scope of my doctoral thesis, as of my first year of study. My research is practice based but incorporates academic writing. It aims to present photographic practice as research, at the same time, exploring writing as a form of practice.
The Roland Barthes Reading Group is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Helen Clarke, L... more The Roland Barthes Reading Group is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Susannah Gent, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppe, Rachel Smith. For four years we have been reading The Preparation of the Novel by Roland Barthes, the collection of the series of lectures he gave at the College de France between 1978 and 1980, completed shortly before his death in 1981. He declared his intention to write a novel, and in this pedagogical experiment, explores the trial of novel writing. In this book the authors riff on a tiny remark Barthes makes: a. Example (from personal experience) –> I want to narrate a party: as a rule, anecdotal material: people I’d not met before, particular characters, conversations, rituals, etc. But when I set about telling the story, I find myself weighed down by the ‘necessary’ details (necessary for the logic of the narrative) that I personally find it too tiresome to recount. I only need ‘retain’ two notations fr...
The dissertation proposes a reading of the photographic work of Sophie Calle (1980-1999), which d... more The dissertation proposes a reading of the photographic work of Sophie Calle (1980-1999), which draws on the writings of Walter Benjamin principally 'On Some Motifs in Baudelaire', and Georg Simmel, for their theses on the effect of city-dwelling on the figure of modernity. The four pieces discussed are presented as a representation of the female experience as modern urban subject. Using the work of theorists Miriam Hansen, Rita Felski and Janet Wolff, it will examine the use of the auto-biographic tradition to, to present a body of art work which problematises reading in it's combination of the texts of photographic image and printed narrative (it's storytelling devices). In do so, it investigates the possibility of the reinstatement of Benjamin's notion of aura, through Sophie Calle's work.
This paper outlines the scope of my doctoral thesis, as of my first year of study. My research i... more This paper outlines the scope of my doctoral thesis, as of my first year of study. My research is practice based but incorporates academic writing. It aims to present photographic practice as research, at the same time, exploring writing as a form of practice.
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Using the work of theorists Miriam Hansen, Rita Felski and Janet Wolff, it will examine the use of the auto-biographic tradition to, to present a body of art work which problematises reading in it's combination of the texts of photographic image and printed narrative (it's storytelling devices). In do so, it investigates the possibility of the reinstatement of Benjamin's notion of aura, through Sophie Calle's work.
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Using the work of theorists Miriam Hansen, Rita Felski and Janet Wolff, it will examine the use of the auto-biographic tradition to, to present a body of art work which problematises reading in it's combination of the texts of photographic image and printed narrative (it's storytelling devices). In do so, it investigates the possibility of the reinstatement of Benjamin's notion of aura, through Sophie Calle's work.