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Teju Cole Blindspot (2017)

Went to SOAS – returned to the US at 17

Nigerian author

Some of his other photos are from his other texts

The act of looking – psychological resonant – global memories

Page 90

We encounter photography rough the mobile phone – juxtaposition between the real world

and the phone

Has a condition – he woke up one day that comes and goes – taught him to see in a new

way – not taking two eyes sight for granted

Why blindspot? What direction its going in how it interacts? What do we call this, a

collection of stories, secondary materials?

The impact of visual representation – the misinterpretation of both sight and cameras

Social media feel – Instagram – what you think in that exact moment – captures the

moment where image and words meet

Representing how words and image put together

When we read we try to capture the exact moment the writer – so we reimagine – he wants

us to be in his mind, in that exact moment – tries to close some form of ambiguity – opens

doors for imagination – closer to the creator’s perspective – personalised image – mini

convo with himself

Sees beauty in the simplistic images – ruined bricks in plain text is hard to conceptualise in

the way the writer does

‘makes ordinary objects radiant’

I see graffatii and think of London in 05’ grime culture, the silenced, - maybe someone else

maybe

The relationship between the creator and the character – made this character – a record of

creative process unfolding unto the page

Social media – fictionalised reality

Comments on his Instagram

Fiction represerntign itself as reality

Superfifcial doesn’t see exactly the truth – ‘unselfing’ empathetic relationship

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Knowledge helps magnify image – see the movie inside out – platyo’s caver

Aristotelian philosophy he was ..... While themind may be a blank slate in regard to

content, it is plain ...

Interesting that there’s no people – cannot capture identiy – minimise, perhaps more

detrimental – one image cannot convey or capture the full essence of human experience

The cave – palto’s cave assums reality – we assume that’s reality – dim abscured version of

Don’t just think og the vibrancy of colours

Telling us how to relate to the photo – makes them meaningful

Words and image to elevate eachother – drawing different associations

He’s not pictured – hoe her pictures rather than a picture of him – better to have a sense –

past visual interpretations, and past psychological experiencers

Therir eyes instead of their entire image

Wotrk of criticism by Peggy Filans – Unmarked – in the 90s – invisibility and obscurity might

have some political power – representation and visualise to empower power – that falls

short she says, maybe allowing some form of invisibility – might be more productive rather

than visualise

Ther fact of representation doesn’t make it – can’t capture everything in an image – carrying

someones head

Self aware of its own limitations

Serves a good counter point on our culture

22 and 322 – repeating images, reoccurring imagers – the most powerful – colurism,

identity, humanising he feels too - the downfall of the colonial period – mental health – teju

cole

One of the most silenced

Known and strange thing – racial bias in cameras – a true picture of black skin

Capture white skin vs black skin

Cannot capture darker faces – the silenced

Essential to his identity - the colour bands to prefer white skin – a particular version

Technology also has this bias

The impacts of colonialism never really left

Autobiography – entering the thoughts of the author – a collection of thoughts and images

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Teju Cole Blindspot (2017) Went to SOAS – returned to the US at 17 Nigerian author Some of his other photos are from his other texts The act of looking – psychological resonant – global memories Page 90 We encounter photography rough the mobile phone – juxtaposition between the real world and the phone Has a condition – he woke up one day that comes and goes – taught him to see in a new way – not taking two eyes sight for granted Why blindspot? What direction its going in how it interacts? What do we call this, a collection of stories, secondary materials? The impact of visual representation – the misinterpretation of both sight and cameras Social media feel – Instagram – what you think in that exact moment – captures the moment where image and words meet Representing how words and image put together When we read we try to capture the exact moment the writer – so ...
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