On 2020-03-09 3:38 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Conversation-worthy links as always!
Thank you! > Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history > course, it makes sense to me. Yes I think this is a good thing for much the same reasons you give. Putting my "They Live" glasses on for a moment, it's interesting to me that such a key site of the social reproduction of American hegemony feels that it must change what art means to that culture in order to satisfy the needs of its ruling- and administrative- class consumers. Or to put it another way: "Art means different things to different cultures", yes, go on... ;-) > I wonder if the Sadie Plant link on technology (art and science) as > weaving might corroborate that those are mapped to ML's garment via the > bridge, rivers, cognitive-historical cycles, etc.? According to some > traditions clothing was literally the first technology. 🙂 Plant's work is long overdue a wider rediscovery, and I think you identify a great link here. Plant discusses the Mona Lisa (and of course William Gibson's "Mona Lisa Overdrive" given the era) in "Zeros and Ones". - Rob.
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