# Katherine Behar, Emmy Mikelson (2016) *And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art*. : Punctum Books. > [!INFO] > Type:: [[]] > Title:: And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art > Author(s): [[Katherine Behar, Emmy Mikelson]] > Year:: 2016 > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: behar_and_2016 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art](zotero://select/items/@behar_and_2016) > ReviewedDate:: [[2024-02-09]] ## Citation ```latex [@behar_and_2016] ``` ## Summary ## Annotation “At the heart of [[speculative realism]] (SR) and [[object-oriented ontology]] (OOO) is the notion of a flat ontology.” […] “The very notion of a flat ontology is spatial in its conception.” […] “It is a space without a center, without a sovereign surveyor, and without clear boundaries.” (Behar and Mikelson, 2016, p. 13) > “abilities of space itself to dissolve boundaries, as, that is, transgressive by nature, breaking the boundaries of all conventions, social or physical.” [[@vidler_x_2000]], 131 “[[@bryson_gaze_2009|The Gaze in the Expanded Field (2009)]],” he ([[Norman Bryson]]) elaborates on the work of Japanese philosopher [[Keiji Nishitani]], who, building upon the principles of his teacher [[Kitarō Nishida]], develops a theory that radically decenters the subject within the field of visuality: > “The direction of thought that passes from Nishida to Nishitani undertakes a much more thoroughgoing displacement of the subject in the field of vision, which finds expression in a term so far largely neglected in the Western discussion of visuality, sūnyatā, translated as ‘blankness,’ ‘emptiness,’ or ‘nihility.’”” ([[@bryson_gaze_2009]], 88) > 순야타(Śūnyatā)의 장으로 넘어가면 대상은 터널 시각의 반대편이 아니라 우주적 나머지 부분의 전체 장에 존재하는 것으로 밝혀집니다. 대상은 자신을 부정적이고 분음 부호적으로 정의하는 우주적 주변을 향해 전방위적으로 펼쳐집니다. 물체를 바라보는 관객은 물체가 있는 글로벌 필드의 한 각도, 즉 원의 360도 접선과 물체에서 글로벌 주변으로 퍼져 나가는 빛의 방사 구의 모든 방향 360도 중 하나의 접선만을 보게 됩니다. > Passing on to the field of sūnyatā the object is found to exist, not at the other end of tunnel vision, but in the total field of the universal remainder. The object opens out omnidirectionally on to the universal surround, against which it defines itself negatively and diacritically. The viewer who looks out at the object sees only one angle of the global field where the object resides, one single tangent of the 360 degrees of the circle, and of the 360 degrees in all directions of the radiating sphere of light spreading out from the object into the global envelopment. ([[@bryson_gaze_2009]], 100) ![[GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI Carceri Series, Plate XIV (1745).png]] ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@behar_and_2016]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```