Sublating Time: Hegel’s speculative philosophy and digital aesthetics

In this paper I discuss G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy, arguing that the immanent, self-determining and dialectical movement of his ‘speculative thinking’ offers insights into contemporary aesthetics, the knowledge of reality, and of meaning in the transitoriness of the digital image. I relate speculative thinking as ontology to the ontology and temporality of the digital image, and focus my discussion around one of the central elements in Hegel’s philosophy: ‘sublation’. Contra postmodernism, Hegel’s thought is shown to have critical contemporary import in defining reason and objective knowledge, and the value and interest of the work of art in the contexts of digital aesthetics.

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 257-264

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.49

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] T. W. Adorno 1993 Hegel: Three Studies. Trans. S. Weber Nicholsen MIT Press Cambridge

[2] W. Desmond 1986 Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics. State University of New York Press Albany

[3] J. N. Findlay 1958 Hegel: A Re-examination. George Allen and Unwin London

[4] G. W. F. Hegel 1969 Hegel’s Science of Logic. A.V. Miller Humanity Books Amherst, NY

[5] G. W. F. Hegel 1970 Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. A.V. Miller Oxford University Press Oxford

[6] G. W. F. Hegel 1971 Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind, Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. W. WallaceA.V. Miller Oxford University Press Oxford

[7] G. W. F. Hegel 1975a Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art 1 T.M. Knox Oxford University Press Oxford

[8] G. W. F. Hegel 1975b Hegel’s Logic, Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. W. Wallace Oxford University Press Oxford

[9] G. W. F. Hegel 1977a Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A.V. Miller Oxford University Press Oxford

[10] G. W. F. Hegel 1977b The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy. W. Cerf State University of New York Albany, NY

[11] G. W. F. Hegel 2008 Outlines of the Philosophy of Right. T.M. Knox S. Houlgate Oxford University Press

[12] S. Houlgate 2005 An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History. Blackwell Publishing Oxford

[13] S. Houlgate 2006 The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity. Purdue University Press West Lafayette, IN

[14] M. Inwood 1992 A Hegel Dictionary. Blackwell Publishers Malden, MA

[15] W. Maker 1994 Philosophy Without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel State University of New York Press Albany

[16] W. Maker 2000 Hegel and Aesthetics. State University of New York Press Albany

[17] S. Rosen 1974 G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom. Yale University Press London

[18] S. Rosen 2014 The Idea of Hegel’s Science of Logic. The University of Chicago Press Chicago

[19] J. Surber 2000 Art as Mode of Thought W. Maker Hegel and Aesthetics. State University of New York Press Albany

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