> I am stealing in to post a resolution for digital futures, if, indeed >the plural and the singular ought to occur in that order; the best seem >to have been by proxy so far, so to continue the trend of the best if >not to come near it: please feel free to delete this post as it comes in >from the fat land that is bound to be thinner hereafter: > >Since art is a faculty we share, perhaps it were better to make art not >before reading our emails but before we are not alone, and then alone >make what we are happy to call art before being disabused of the notion >that we are. The digital social scene is centripetal, in its >assumptions, this is the presumption. Or: perhaps we can do with less >art; only the art which jams entertainment is green, surely. > >What calls to be theorised is a new proxemics, which includes more >short-term thinking and less altruism. > >Short-term ought to be taken to an extreme and pushed back into the >past, like a cuticle. It will hurt but the carbon burden will be less as >the hurt increases. > >The wisdom of Solon in wiping out debt: capitalism we resolve we will >support when it arrives. Insider trading in cultural theory will not be >supported. Futures are burdened with no expectations that defaults will >be culpable. The punitive regime will not be hypostasised. Neither will >representation. > >It will be new to be near because we will proceed from the notion that >mutual understanding with universal textuality is and will be a lie. We >will demand better lies from our artists. > >Every advance deserves to be turned back on itself until we find that >thinking of it like we did forward was a futurism which was not creative >and moving forward is presumptive and not creative; we will do better >imagining ourselves at the end of a long dark age, where knowledge was >less recognised than sinned against and limits were more recognised than >exceeded... although we like to talk of moving forward... > > >sticking in places, >Simon
Bio: Simon Taylor (New Zealand) Renate established and ran Stronghold Theatre Co., Auckland, New Zealand, 1992-2007 and Cafe Brazil, in Karangahape Rd., 1995-2007. He currently writes his blog, Square White World, and for and about theatre projects that funding bodies show no interest in. The digital remains a problem for him, a creative one, in terms of its relationship to representation ... if hands do the devil's work , do fingers do it at higher resolution? -- Renate Ferro and Tim Murray Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Cornell University _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
