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JPEG : the quadruple object

The thesis, together with its practice-research works, presents an object-oriented 
perspective on the JPEG standard. Using the object-oriented 
philosophy of Graham Harman as a theoretical and also practical starting 
point, the thesis looks to provide an account of the JPEG digital object and 
its enfolding within the governmental scopic regime. The thesis looks to 
move beyond accounts of digital objects and protocols within software 
studies that position the object in terms of issues of relationality, 
processuality and potentiality. From an object-oriented point of view, the 
digital object must be seen as exceeding its relations, as actual, present and 
holding nothing in reserve. The thesis presents an account of JPEG starting 
from that position as well as an object-oriented account of JPEG’s position 
within the distributed, governmental scopic regime via an analysis of 
Facebook’s Timeline, tagging and Haystack systems. 
As part of a practice-research project, the author looked to use that 
perspective within photographic and broader imaging practices as a spur to 
new work and also as a “laboratory” to explore Harman’s framework. The 
thesis presents the findings of those “experiments” in the form of a report 
alongside practice-research eBooks. These works were not designed to be 
illustrations of the theory, nor works to be “analysed”. Rather, following the 
lead of Ian Bogost and Mark Amerika, they were designed to be 
“philosophical works” in the sense of works that “did” philosophy.