What would the world be like if Roy Ascott's La Plissure du Texte (1983)
sold at auction for $34.2 million instead of Gerhard RIchter's ?Abstraktes
Bild?? In what sort of world (and artworld) would that be possible?
I asked this question a couple days ago on Facebook and it has generated
some
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But isn't it all just a bit Luddite? What kind of work were all those Kodak
employees doing? Putting transparencies in plastic boxes to post to the
owners. It's just a rearrangement of social labour, like when Manchester
Actually a substantial chunk of their work was related to the
On 13/05/13 18:11, Keith Hart wrote:
Thanks for posting this. It's a great interview and I downloaded the book
onto my Kindle. Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial
product of modernity are interesting
That sounds similar to Paul Graham's interesting opinions about unions -
I'm sorry, I should have given the source for my observation about the
return of high-wage and low-wage jobs in the US, compared to the
devastating loss of mid-wage jobs. It is here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/interactive-great-reset
It's an amazing little animated graph, dated 2013.
Brian:
Let's get to work on this.
Great idea!
But, before you roll up your sleeves, if you want to have any useful ideas
on the structure of labor (and leisure and consumption) then you must
begin with a CRASH effort to understand the impact of *digital* technology on
the economy.
The middle class is of course a construct. It seems to me what is happening in
the disappearance of that class is that we simply can no longer pretend it has
an existence beyond a political will to work with this construct. And did the
idea of the middle class not result from a desire to make a
Dear nettime,
Here is a tiny step towards gathering the collective of humans and non-humans...
The eyes of the milpa
Families from Santa Mar?a Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca (Mexico) use mobile phones to
create an online community memory about everything that grows in their fields.?
