BOW: A3 images – the agential cut – SJField

I spent some time today working with the idea of the agential cut and photography. Tomorrow I will look at Processing/film/making the image move.

Just to remind people –

‘An agential cut, therefore, can be viewed as making and giving meaning to human-data assemblages.’ (Lupton, 2019: 30)
“…any attempt to impose meaning and order is an intervention (a cut) that produces specific effects, and is inevitably part of the matter it seeks to observe or document. They [Kember and Zylinska (2012)] represent photography as a specific cut in meaning, a way of delimiting from all the choices availabe what can be recorded and displayed, and therefore, how meaning can be generated. It is the medium by which things are brought into being by humans and non-humans (e.g) cameras [phone, scanners, etc.] working together. Photography makes agential cuts that produce life forms rather than simply documenting them. ‘It is a way of giving form to matter’ (Kember and Zylinksa 2012: 84)’ (Lupton, 2019: 29)
‘Images or representations are not snapshots or depictions of what awaits is but rather condensations or traces of multiple practices of engagement’ (Barad, 2007: 53)
Potential images to accompany writings