Sean, what art speaking of the good are you thinking of ?
The only material i can think of is that which escapes between the shims in the machine. steve Sean Cubitt wrote: > A catastrophe in its ordinary running, and a crisis-prone catastrophe. > > Fifteen years ago, or maybe twebnty, Jimmie Durham noticed that the > invading white men accused the native Americans of rape, scalping, > gratuitous slaughter of whole villages . . . But that of course it > was the other way round. Who still believes violence is repressed in > liberal capitalist democracies? It is the everyday rapes, pillage and > murders by which capitalism manages to profit from its own > catastrophic nature. The unending terror that began with Calvin still > populates the very heart of commerce (and the state is its executive > branch) > > The problem now can be phrased like this: The world is split between > Evil (regimes, terrorists . . .) and Innocent (civilians, victims . . > . ). There is no room left for the Good. What art can do uniquely is > to speak of the Good, that is of the very thing that does not exist in > or for contemporary capitalism > > sean > > > > > On 29/11/08 10:21 AM, "Verena Conley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent point. Of course, terror is endemic to capitalism. > Though we still have to define it. > Also, since earlier we spoke of catastrophes, it seems fairly safe > to say that free market capitalism the way it was practiced since > 1989 but especially 2000 is the real catastrophe. > > Verena > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this mean - the following - the following (too late), > which my > earlier post was an attempting to articulate: that capital encodes > terror? makes use of it in its flows of symbolic exchange? as > if having > reached a critical velocity, the accident of history is given to > returning endlessly? > > Or conversely has there been some sort of symbolic phase shift > whereby > the simulacrum, the coded world, that Image of > thought-as-representation, now only runs by circulating, > through the > circulation of, acts/networked nodes of terrestrial and > extraterrestrial > terror? Is capital now entrained in the duration of terror? > (As we are > entrained in the durations of its spectacular technological > means.) > > Simon Taylor > > www.squarewhiteworld.com <http://www.squarewhiteworld.com> > www.brazilcoffee.co.nz <http://www.brazilcoffee.co.nz> > > > Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > > As a reflection of the transparency of evil (Baudrillard), > the whole > > lot of it, Mumbai, etc.--is commerical art...and the millions of > > downloads, transmissions and commentaries are its market, > paid for in > > broadcast fees, cable and satellite subscriptions and financed by > > advertisers: with media art critics and all! We are > enveloped by a > > postmodern Roman media coliseum, where gladiatorial urges are > elicited > > and fulfilled, where spectators take part in the war games, > which are > > repeated endlessly and archived for posterity on the Network. > > > > NRIII > > > > Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D > > Editor, Kritikos > > http://intertheory.org > > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > > > > > Prof Sean Cubitt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Director > Media and Communications Program > Faculty of Arts > Room 127 John Medley East > The University of Melbourne > Parkville VIC 3010 > Australia > > Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 > Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 > M: 0448 304 004 > Skype: seancubitt > http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ > http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/ > http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ > http://del.icio.us/seancubitt > > Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series > http://leonardo.info > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
