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SUMMARY:Drawing processes - Chiara Ambrosio (University College London)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:In their recent manifesto for a processual philosophy of biolo
 gy\, John Dupré and Daniel Nicholson (2018) propose a shift – at least 
 as far as biology and the life sciences are concerned – from substances 
 to processes. Recent work across art\, biology and process ontology (Ander
 son\, Dupré  and Wakefield\, 2019) has begun to build a visual epistemolo
 gy of processes by bringing the practice of drawing\, as a pathway to proc
 ess thinking\, back into the laboratory. In this talk\, I contribute to th
 is emergent line of philosophical inquiry\, and in particular I propose a 
 pragmatist epistemology for drawing processes. Pragmatism\, which I consid
 er in its original delineation by the philosopher and scientist Charles S.
  Peirce\, is uniquely placed – as a processual philosophy with a strong 
 grounding in scientific practice – to contribute to this new area of inv
 estigation. My argument will focus on the simplest building block of drawi
 ng: the humble line. Combining an established body of literature in the fi
 eld of visual studies (Ingold 2007\, 2015\; Faietti and Wolf 2015) with th
 eoretical pragmatist writings as well as examples of drawings by Peirce hi
 mself\, I will argue that the activity of 'making visible' through line dr
 awing counts as a form of experimentation in a distinctively Peircean\, pr
 agmatist sense –  and it does so in a way that cuts across the dichotomy
  between 'static' entities or mechanisms and 'dynamic' processes.
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