The World and the Will: On the Problem of Photographic Agency

Walter Benn Michaels’s recent contribution to a nonsite symposium on photography and philosophy takes its title from G. E. M. Anscombe’s admittedly ā€œparadoxical and obscureā€ sounding claim that in acting intentionally, ā€œI do what happensā€: That is to say, when … Continue reading The World and the Will: On the Problem of Photographic Agency