The poetics of history, or Hatching an ugly duckling: research in mode √2

Magazine article, 2010

The article takes Jacques Rancière's notion of a "poetics of history" as the point of departure for its discussion of the relation of history as an academic discipline to the nascent field of artistic research, arguing that a historical inquiry into the forms of sensory experience – or a historical aesthetics, for short – might help in bridging the often remarked-on gap between artistic research and the humanities. To pinpoint this intermediate line of inquiry, the concept of mode √2 research is introduced.