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Zētēsis: The International Journal for Fine Art, Philosophy and the Wild Sciences

This debut journal/book series, Zētēsis (research generated by curiosity) was established in 2012 by Professor Golding to fill a gap in advanced fine art research where rigorous links to contemporary philosophy and contemporary science had, all too often, been understated or left out altogether. Assembling an advisory board who are international and world-leading experts in the field, and who also undertake the role of peer reviewer, the first two volumes of this series deal specifically with questions of the canon (no. 1), and materiality (no. 2). Included in No. 1 The Cruelty of the Classical Canon, is Golding’s “Preface,” as well as the highly cited “9th Technology of Otherness: A certain kind of debt,” (pp. 21-27). This piece investigates the problem of ethics in classical metaphysics and its link to ‘truth-telling’ as a form of pure reason. In contradistinction to this move, Golding builds upon Foucault’s Courage of Truth, the last lecture series before his death, to show how an ethic draws along the sensuous modalities (as Foucault positions them) of courage (parrhēsia) and curiosity (zētēsis), creates a certain form of community, a certain kind of self, and with it, a certain kind of debt. It is precisely this debt that Socrates reminds Crito ‘not to forget to remember to pay’ to Asclepius, and to do so with the now quite infamous gift of the bird. The “9th Technology of Otherness” was originally commissioned by H. Rogers for his edited collection Queertexturealities, (Article: 2013), pp. 99-105. ISBN 978-1-87352-74-8. Golding’s second volume in the series, Wet ⇌ Dry ⇌ Thick ⇌ Thin ⇌ (getting beyond The Raw and the Cooked) takes another look at Claude Levi-Strauss’s seminal The Raw and the Cooked in order to re-think the impact of art practice, technology, speculative idealism and scientific investigation on art and culture.