This website reflects my ongoing interest in content that’s very slight or seemingly insignificant. Hence, the web name uses the Latin adjective ‘minutus’ meaning “very small,” “little,” “insignificant,” or “petty,” derived from the verb minuo (to lessen or reduce). It describes something diminished in size or importance, serving as the root for the English words “minute” (tiny) and “minute” (time).
past projects and publications
These concern the exchange of ideas between art practice and other matters, particularly the conflict between aesthetics and political content through the use of photography and film
Photography and Political Aesthetics (Routledge 2023)
Cities and Photography (Routledge 2012)
Photographic Realism: late twentieth century aesthetics (Manchester University Press, 2013).
The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory – co-editor with Mark Durden (Routledge 2019)
Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer co-editor with Gillian Whiteley and in collaboration with Little Riot Press (Bloomsbury 2021)
links
I am co-organiser of RadicalArt-RadicalAesthetics (with Gillian Whiteley – aka bricolagekitchen )
and commissioning editor of the associated RaRa book series for Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/radical-aestheticsradical-art/
I am an Honorary Fellow of the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University where I worked for many years – https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/people/jane-tormey/
jane.tormey@icloud.com
minutus.com 