Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs
Tacticalmediasplained! On 27 Apr 2021, at 5:52, d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote: But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,' it's time for a rethink. I found Ted's list of articles is very useful (thanks). Particularly Emily Ratajkowski's extraordinary text 'The Cut' on her struggle to regain control of her own image. And the wider exasperated challenge for us to work harder to break out of our cognitive and political confinement is well taken. So in this spirit I suggest that the process should start by acknowledging that reducing Ratajkowski's brilliant essay to "supermodel doing tactical media..'is really "not ok" (at least give her name!). Apart from also being a serious actor and a fine essayist Ratajkowski also studied fine art at UCLA. Her article makes clear that this education meant that her encounter with Richard Prince's work was mediated through her knowledge of its Warholian ethos (and as it later turned out she was able to use her erudition to diagnose an acute moral vacuum). So my point is that there is more than a hint of a further step in a process of 'objectifying' Ratajkowski going on in Ted's commentary. So yes agreed, less 'pale, male and stale' please. David Garcia (1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll Jacob Kastrenakes Apr 24, 2021 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020) https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html (2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things Dean Kissick (n.d.) https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick (3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman April 14, 2021 https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,' it's time for a rethink. I found Ted's list of articles is very useful (thanks). Particularly Emily Ratajkowski's extraordinary text 'The Cut' on her struggle to regain control of her own image. And the wider exasperated challenge for us to work harder to break out of our cognitive and political confinement is well taken. So in this spirit I suggest that the process should start by acknowledging that reducing Ratajkowski's brilliant essay to "supermodel doing tactical media..'is really "not ok" (at least give her name!). Apart from also being a serious actor and a fine essayist Ratajkowski also studied fine art at UCLA. Her article makes clear that this education meant that her encounter with Richard Prince's work was mediated through her knowledge of its Warholian ethos (and as it later turned out she was able to use her erudition to diagnose an acute moral vacuum). So my point is that there is more than a hint of a further step in a process of 'objectifying' Ratajkowski going on in Ted's commentary. So yes agreed, less 'pale, male and stale' please. David Garcia (1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll Jacob Kastrenakes Apr 24, 2021 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020) https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html (2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things Dean Kissick (n.d.) https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick (3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman April 14, 2021 https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,' it's time for a rethink. I found Ted's list of articles is very useful (thanks). Particularly Emily Ratajkowski's extraordinary text 'The Cut' on her struggle to regain control of her own image. And the wider exasperated challenge for us to work harder to break out of our cognitive and political confinement is well taken. So in this spirit I suggest that the process should start by acknowledging that reducing Ratajkowski's brilliant essay to "supermodel doing tactical media..'is really "not ok" (at least give her name!). Apart from also being a serious actor and a fine essayist Ratajkowski also studied fine art at UCLA. Her article makes clear that this education meant that her encounter with Richard Prince's work was mediated through her knowledge of its Warholian ethos (and as it later turned out she was able to use her erudition to diagnose an acute moral vacuum). So my point is that there is more than a hint of a further step in a process of 'objectifying' Ratajkowski going on in Ted's commentary. So yes agreed, less 'pale, male and stale' please. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
3 or 4 good links on NFTs
NFTs don't strike me as intrinsically interesting, but the seeming inability of conventional leftish/academic to address them *is* interesting. I'd be hard-pressed to think of another time when it seemed so clear that the force of criticism has been *to categorize* — that is, to dispense with the rough edges of specificity in order file something away as quickly as possible and reaffirm the big picture. That's not without its benefits; for example, it can spin off all kinds of erudition. But it shouldn't be hard to do all that *and also* acknowledge that some curious new spaces might be opening up. It seems to me that that victory of more or less disciplinary self-regard over the raw potential of things is pretty much a case study in performativity. And, like a lot of performativity these days, it feels less than promising. Here are three articles on the subject that I thought were worth the time. Just retweeting, not endorsing, as they say. But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,' it's time for a rethink. Links below, obv. Cheers, Ted --- (1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll Jacob Kastrenakes Apr 24, 2021 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020) https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html (2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things Dean Kissick (n.d.) https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick (3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman April 14, 2021 https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
