...http://www.scribd.com/doc/47820892/L-Impossible-Nemogu%C4%87e ...L'IMPOSSIBLE - New Aesthetic Magazine,Belgrade ,1930...The New God creation...MANIK...MAY...2012... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Myers" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Links
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 08:12:05 +0100, ruth catlow wrote: >> Thanks Rob, >> >> I agree. Well worth the read. An illuminating article after all the >> "clopping" ; ) >> >> Though even in this account the machines are imbued with agency and >> autonomy - strangely disconnected from natural and (human) political >> and >> economic forces that drive technological developments. > > Manuel de Landa aside, Charlesworth describes: > > "...this fantasy of machine agency that seems to lurk in the New > Aesthetic’s enthusiasm..." > > the machines do move, he writes: > > "...but only because humans have deployed them to do so..." > > Crucially: > > "The New Aesthetics is a demand-side aesthetics. It doesn’t matter who > transmits, only what is received. Say Sterling: > > ‘Valorizing machine-generated imagery is like valorizing the > unconscious mind. Like Surrealist imagery, it is cool, weird, > provocative, suggestive, otherworldly, but it is also impoverished.’ > > It may seem impoverished, but without a more robust concept of the > creative, initiating human subject, it is also an accurate reflection of > the current condition." > > This is politically and philosophically damning, but not for TNA: for > its chosen subjects. > > The TNA tumblr was *visual rhetoric*. It very successfully demonstrated > the quantitatively distinct current historical moment of pervasive > digital distortion of the real. To ask it to do something else is to ask > it to be less successful at what it did. And if it had been less > successful at what it did, we wouldn't all be arguing about it. We > cannot exhaustively replace new pictures with old texts. > > The messenger is now so filled with lead that we could use him as a > pencil. So let's write. > > - Rob. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
