Has anyone read "The Accident of Art" by Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer? It is an "extended conversation" between them. I generally find it difficult to understand criticism, the terms used, but by the end of the book I think I had a vague idea of what they were talking about.
It goes something like this: The accident of art, or in fact it seemed more general, the accident of globalization/capitalism, is the correction of perception by machine. And, that we need to constantly fight against the machine and get inside of it to change it. Anyhow it was interesting but I thought that in particularly the way they talked about the digital and analogue and the internet, Sondhiem (probably others do too but I'm not aware of much) goes into greater depth. But the biggest thing that bugged me was the quick discussion about software. Initially they spoke of architects and how they should write their own software. Then a bit later, they question who are the programmers? They're sure it's not Bill gates. And they lamented the fact that no one goes about writing their own software. Me thinks they need to research that a little more. I probably read it too quickly to understand more. James. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
