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errolmorris

  1. the immiseration of reading + the immiseration of writing + the immiseration of not-writing + the immiseration of being immiserated... 8:46 PM May 27th via web
  2. Punctum, studium... I must be missing the point. Some things effect us personally; some things politically; some things socially? So what? 4:39 PM May 26th via Mobile Web
  3. When I figure out what I'm doing, I'm going to tell everyone. (OK?) 7:51 AM May 24th via web
  4. My new book, "A Wilderness of Error," will be published in August... 7:59 PM May 23rd via web
  5. I take it back. Please read WIAN, Part Three. (And read my book.) 7:58 PM May 23rd via web
  6. Brevity is the soul of concision. (I wish I could say more about this.) 7:01 PM May 23rd via web
  7. There. Now, you don't have to bother reading WIAN, Part Three. 7:00 PM May 23rd via web
  8. Punctum, studium et al... You can classify your beliefs about photographs, but that in good measure misses the point. 6:57 PM May 23rd via web
  9. LOOK AT THE FENTON PHOTOGRAPHS. LOOK AT ANY PHOTOGRAPH... To determine what we are looking at, an investigation is needed. 6:50 PM May 23rd via web
  10. A kosher kitchen. Two sinks––one for reference, the other for beliefs. Most writers about photography discuss the latter, ignore the former. 6:46 PM May 23rd via web
  11. We can believe many things about what a photograph depicts, even though most of them may be false. 6:42 PM May 23rd via web
  12. A photograph has two parts: the beliefs associated with it and what it refers to. 6:40 PM May 23rd via web
  13. A proper name captures the human predicament — the need for significance and the need to be grounded in the world. 6:39 PM May 23rd via web
  14. It is not enough to be told that photographs are causally connected to what they are photos of. We need to know what we are looking at. 6:34 PM May 23rd via web
  15. A photograph is a kind of shadow. Shadows lack substance, but there is a causal relationship between a person and their shadow. 6:30 PM May 23rd via web
  16. A name under a photograph could suggest that a person looks like this—but it usually asserts: this is a photograph of that person. 6:23 PM May 23rd via web
  17. No one (to my knowledge) has examined the similarity between Kripke's account of proper names and photography. 6:20 PM May 23rd via web
  18. Ask yourself: do our beliefs about a photograph determine what a photograph is a photograph of? 6:19 PM May 23rd via web
  19. I HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING HOPELESSLY PEDANTIC. (Repeat phrases from "WIAN, Part Three." I have no other choice.) 6:18 PM May 23rd via web
  20. Don't get me wrong. Walsh's review is very, very kind and perceptive. 7:20 PM May 22nd via web