(Sorry if this duplicates. Didn't seem to go through before.)
Dear All:
Happy New Year and thanks to Nicholas Ruiz for inviting me to join this
fascinating conversation.
As a political theorist, my interests and whatever expertise I have are
slightly orthogonal to the discussion so
One could argue that the primary value of art is not in its outcomes,
whether an artefact is good or bad, but in how it operates as the ³dark
matter² that mediates our social contracts. In this respect one can consider
art as folded into creativity per se and not privileged as it has
traditionally
Dear All:
Happy New Year and thanks to Nicholas Ruiz for inviting me to join this
fascinating conversation.
As a political theorist, my interests and whatever expertise I have are
slightly orthogonal to the discussion so far, so I don't know how helpful
this will be, but anyway:
I tend
I admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed by the complexities and
theoretical commingling coming to light during this past week of this
welcome discussion Clearly, there are a number of issues whose
relevancy is unquestionable – yet whose challenge may deserve a thesis
or two to appropriately
The network, as conceived of in ANT (Latour, Law, et al), is what I am
referring to when talking about social contracts, creativity and mediation.
Same idea, different language. Foucault was on to this, earlier, with a
different terminology. The remediated self, as a node in a social network,
is
Hello Everyone and a Happy New Year to all!--
This is an interesting discussion (as is the concurrent). The roles of
fashion, taste, advertising, politics and ideologies of what a good or
difficult poem or work of art in themselves engender a sense of
competition and values aesthetic, ethical
All,
Thanks, Joshua, for the nice, succinct and very clear statements. I
want to build on that discussion of origins of autonomy a bit, because
it is useful to recall that the aestheticist movement in England,
particularly the critical writings of Oscar Wilde and others,
advocated their
A hyper-condensed tour ( informed and infinitely re-iterated
compliments of academic institutualization )
Could commodities themselves speak, they would say: in the eyes of
each other we are nothing but exchange values.
Marx, Capital, Vol. 1
Marx introduced his analysis of the system
