Should we consider black a colour, the absence of colour, or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Beginning with Robert Fludd’s attempt to picture nothingness, Eugene Thacker reflects on some of the ways in which blackness has been used and thought about through the history of art and philosophical thought.

This is a web republication of the original essay by Eugene Thacker.

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The original essay can be found on Public Domain Review.

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Kozakov keeps a methodical record of his life. Starting at fifteen years of age, he writes his diary: detailed notes penned in 96-page standard exercise books, each entry beginning with air temperature and wind direction, describing occurrences at work and at home, and switching back and forth between musings on love and his place in society.

Moscow-based publishing house Gluschenkoizdat have come into possession of Nikolai Kozakov’s notebooks for the year 1962. Following extensive work on their transcription and preparation for print, the publishers present the present volume for the edification of readers, in conjunction with a radio drama. The publication of Николай Козаков. Дневник. 1962 (Nikolay Kozakov: Diaries. 1962) has been timed to coincide with the publishers’ summary exhibition Our days are rich and bright.

See the website at 1962.gluschenkoizdat.ru. There is also an extract in English, covering twelve days from the diary.

Art direction: Kirill Gluschenko
Designers: A. Glushkova, A. Moskovsky
Illustration: A. Koltchina

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Book cover, 170 × 215 mm, 624 pages, ISBN 978-5-9906255-3-2, edition of 1,000. Gluschenkoizdat, 2016.

Cover of the radioplay, 2 LP, 88 min 41 sec, 8 pages booklet, edition of 300. Gluschenkoizdat, 2016

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