Seeing Degree Zero

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK) and Research Associate at Witwatersrand University (South Africa). His most recent book projects are Cold War Imaginaries: Technology, Temporality, Culture (co-edited with John Beck forthcoming 2026 Edinburgh University Press) and Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (co-authored with John Beck, Duke University Press 2020). Bishop is lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and the book series associated with the journal (Duke UP) and the series “Technicities” (co-edited with Jussi Parikka, Edinburgh University Press). Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

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• Response/abilities of SeeingRyan Bishop and Sunil ManghaniReading Barthes, AgainVictor Burgin and Sunil ManghaniBelledonneVictor BurginPart 1: Degrees and VariationsSaenredam, Barthes, BurginSunil ManghaniI was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin’s Projection LoopsRyan BishopThe Situation of PracticeVictor BurginPart 2: Image Zero DegreePainting, Photography, ProjectionRyan Bishop and Sunil ManghaniThe End of the FrameVictor BurginCamera as Object and ProcessRyan Bishop, Sean Cubitt and Victor BurginPrairieVictor BurginPart 3: Writerly Readings Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne Christine BerthinPrairie (Argo)Kristen Kreider and James O’LearyPhotography as Rhythm: On PrairieDomietta TorlascoThe Work of Death in Burgin’s BelledonneGordon HonNotes on Contributors Index