Christopher Temt

The Rule is the Architecture: Provenance and Use of a Rule-Generated Recordkeeping Order

Purpose — Since 1993 an artistic practice has produced one dated entry per day under a rule printed on the record itself; in 2026 it stated the rule's principle and re-founded its working files on it. This paper asks whether the resulting filing order derives from the rule and wh...

A Rule on the Sheet: Price and Date as Sanctioned Properties of the Artwork

Recent philosophy of contemporary art holds that artists fix the properties of their works through public acts of sanction, and that rules are a medium in which such sanction is exercised — rules for how a work is displayed, conserved, and participated in. Price has not been trea...

Decomposed, Not Abolished: The Archon of a Rule-Based Archive

In one influential philosophical account of the archive, there is no archive without an archon — a guardian who keeps, interprets, and excludes — and no archive without an outside, a place of consignation distinct from what it holds. This article reads that account against a rule...

Price Without Negotiation: The Rule as a Limit Case for the Sociology of Valuation

The sociology of valuation has shown that markets for singular goods cannot determine quality as ordinary-goods markets do. Because a singularity's qualities are plural and incommensurable, such markets rely on judgment devices that guide buyers (Karpik 2010), pricing rituals tha...

Price Without Negotiation: The Rule as a Limit Case for the Sociology of Valuation

The sociology of valuation has shown that markets for singular goods cannot determine quality as ordinary-goods markets do. Because a singularity's qualities are plural and incommensurable, such markets rely on judgment devices that guide buyers (Karpik 2010), pricing rituals tha...

Accountable, Not Trustless: A Pre-Blockchain Rule Read Against Blockchain's Displaced Promises

Across Bitcoin and the blockchain-art discourse, four recurring claims can be distinguished: trust minimization, authenticity, scarcity, and preservation. A deliberately critical corpus documents each as displaced rather than delivered: trust is relocated, authenticity is located...