Kyle Parry

@kyleparry.bsky.social

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catalog entry for ways of seeing after dark; the book cover is followed by descriptive copy that reads: Rethinking darkness through the politics and possibilities of vision Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places. Ways of Seeing After Dark contends that darkness is not absence but presence, shaping how worlds are sensed, inhabited, and understood. Darkness brings peril, but it is also a fundamental, if increasingly threatened, condition of living together on this planet. Tracing links between John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing and his more poetic later writings, Parry recasts contemporary conditions defined by light pollution, digital mediation, and racialized regimes of seeing. In dialogue with artists, critics, and astronomers, Ways of Seeing After Dark examines how fear of darkness is built rather than universal and how such training intersects with broader social structures, including racism and capitalism. Showing how “felt darkness displaces physical darkness” and “brighter nights bring darker days,” Parry reveals the dark as a multifaceted phenomenon with political and perceptual significance, calling for new ways of seeing with the night.
cover of the book Ways of Seeing After Dark by Kyle Parry, the cover in midnight blue, the title in white, and the author's name in yellow
Curationist 2025 Metadata Summit Metadata Outside the Box
A screen capture of the webpage for A Theory of Assembly, with words from reviews at the top and part of the cover at the bottom
an advertisement that says “Ending soon. Chaos is costly. Save 50% on clarity.”
pink clouds, like a jelly fish and a long vine, only this image has been turned 90 degrees
the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS ! It does not belong to banks & fancy investors ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE because it is the INSIDE of the WORLD. ART SOOTHES PAIN! Art wakes up sleepers! ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPIDITY ! ART SINGS HALLELUJA! ART IS FOR KITCHENS ! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky ! ART IS CHEAP! HURRAH Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 2024
reflected masts in wavy marina water, making for squiggly lines, about 7 of them
a collection of pearl peppers in a tray with a spoon
a view of a puffy blanket of clouds with a spectrum of pools of shadow, as seen from a commercial plane
form oblique strategies, a card that says don’t be frightened to display your talents
night by jeff wall, a puddle, a reflection, people sleeping, a city
what to maintain?
A New Way of Looking at Memes One of my favorite memes started with a picture of a blue dog. Someone got the idea to place an odd bit of personal testimony over the dog’s seemingly very intense face: “i’m neither joking nor serious but another secret third thing.” The “secret third thing” concept proved inspiring; it became what is known as a “snowclone,” or a simple verbal formula open to endless variation. People started to tweet their own versions, only now without the dog picture, and not always polite: “not an alcoholic nor sober but a secret third thing,” “not polyamorous or monogamous but a secret third thing,” “u are not a more secret complicated third thing you are 32.”
three books on a table: the naked tree, a writer of our time, and tell them of battles kings and elephants
The book is called A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes. It sits in front of some ceramics.
a glowing recommendation for a city is not a computer in front of a copy of the book
lots of emojis