Dear Andreas Maria Jacobs,
Yes, you're right. Let's be done with these /prêt-à/-/penser/ images and
the whole of the negative critique they imply, however dressed up in the
anodyne affirmations of political and cultural correctness!
Best,
Simon Taylor
www.squarewhiteworld.com
You are right. I love the noosphere. It is the soil all these rhizomes grow
in. I don't think a revolution against it is possible. We just don't know
how to live with it yet, or love it properly.
Perhaps I just see no love or morality in these current underminings or
subversions, just vacant
Hello,
You wrote:
A revolution against the noosphere would need some other place place
of promised jouissance
What a beautiful phrase.
Perhaps it indicates a phase of human evolution that we can't yet
determine,
a progression to some form of telepathy, the precursor evidenced by our
Thanks for the quotes and the link to the article.
The spirit of it reminds us of Gustav Metzger's second manifesto of
auto-destructive art (http://www.luftgangster.de/audeart3.html), and the
drowning man imagery points us to the problems of cultural feedback loops in
our societies (in the
it's also very interesting to observe how the old media are becoming
more and more permeable to blogs and D.I.Y. information. This phenomenon
is not due to a fascination in more democratic information sources (the
traditional media holders hate new media and people involved with it),
on the
Just to add to what Zac says,
Perhaps the relationship between 'Techne and Poesis' is not progressively
divergent, but cyclical and variable in fine art?
bw
Jon Alison
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www.thomson-craighead.net
My worry about strictly web-based models of community is that they use time
Hi Davin all,
Sorry for not getting back earlier, it has been rather busy here...
I think it is easier to see that art from a blank anthropological
view, over our lifetime, has expressed an ironically posthuman set of
priorities--the service of markets, the expression of those markets,
and
Marc,
I think you hit the nail on the head: Perhaps It would be more
appropriate to introduce small, human-scale initiatives which include
individuals and groups, according to their own needs and shared
resources, and then build from there. As far as I am concerned
(personally with others), this
Marc,
Peer production is based on the abundance logic of digital reproduction, and
what is abundant lies outside the market mechanism. It is based on free
contributions that lie outside of the labour-capital relationship. It creates
a commons that is outside commodification and is based on
Davin's point about material objects touches on something I have been
discussing with some friends recently. Davin said:
*My worry about strictly web-based models of community is that they
use time and allow for thinking. but they don't necessarily create more
time for thinking by producing
Dear Johannes,
I believe that I should probably offer some clarifications in response
to your thoughtful reply. Most importantly, I don't want to suggest
that all art accomplishes the same end (I am talking about the larger
conception of art as techne, where, perhaps, a subset of techne would
be
Thanks Davin for your initial post and thank you Johannes for your comments.
It's interesting to read ten years hence about 9/11 as being such a political
touchstone, when in the UK just now (and NorthAtlantic economies more
generally) so much radical reformation and reduction of public
dear all
if allowed (as it's part of last week) , can I briefly take up Cynthia Rubin's
response,
where she proposes that
now that everything is digital the need to push artists to define
themselves as tied to a specific medium is now longer relevant, as anyone
who is computer literate
Hello all, thanks to Johannes for the questions. I will try to respond to
both of his points:
1. THE EFFECTS OF SURVEILLANCE IN OUR LIVES
The city of Merida, where I live, is being described everywhere (see
Wikipedia, for example) as 'one of the digital capitals of Latin America',
mainly because
Dear Gabriella and All,
Thank you so much for this detailed description! It is so much cheaper
to employ technology than people, and cheaper still to make other people
the watchers.
I have been pondering whether empowering border guards to confiscate
tech wasn't potentially something of a
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