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On 29/06/18 20:18, Shu Lea Cheang wrote:
Then, Jaromil alarmed us, " Just like network routing algorithms were inspired by ant scenting patterns, we are witnessing a moment in history in which the mainstream industry with all its techno-poetic powers have embraced the patterns of Mycelia."
neither is there need at this moment in history to sound or heed alarm nor is there to bear witness silently mute or vocally poetic: the embrace of the mainstream industry with its technopoetic arms, its long arms, itsautomatic arms, its electronic arms, itsarms,its petrochemical arms, its military arms, isof patterns, or is making patterns, network-like patterns, barabbasian patterns, informational patterns, but productive patterns, profitable patterns, semiocapitalist patterns, and market-economic-neuroliberal patterns, algorithmically-invested patterns, desirous of some natural-religious explanation and causation: its patterns are all PR & marketing depts. And the market is for economists, to see which ones write the best, futuristic, progressive, smartest, computer-AI-assisted EF [Economic Fiction] techno-poetry. The warning is Foucault's: where resistance has gone power will follow. Where the resistance has been the power has followed.
best, Simon
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