----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hi Mark, Suspect people are needed!
> > I don't find that a reason to try to banish all irony, condemn the satirical, > throw the Campbell's soup out with the Watergate. > > I find the troubling of these lines rather productive. > > Of course, I may be a very suspect person on this topic. > the regression back to accusations of postmodernism feels really misplaced right now, I think. IT’s as if the alt-righters AND positivists have been waiting to say: ‘see all you relativists, this is what your world has come to’!! Ned Rossiter, media theorist of organise networks and logistics, has recently been referring to the current ‘post-truth’ scape as ‘neopositivist’. I think this is great formulation because it encapsulates the ways n which the current diagrams of power play on both the sides of truth and simulation and cast anyone as falling on one side or the other. I think that’s why we need the possibility of producing alternative fakeries that actually shift the milieu. For me, this is what art practices might do…and I also find it useful to use the term - which has played around philosophical and literary circles – fabulation. This gets us out of the fake/real binary and asks: what else is imaginable? Anna _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
