the white working class and the downwardly mobile middle class have
constituted an electoral majority on protectionism and racism - the rust
belt states proved crucial - it's huntington's vengeance and hooverism -
but the country is evidently nonwhite postpatriarchal - true it was a vote
against
Dear Armin,
The "and" between cybernetics and pioneers of computer art is relevant
in my article, but not in your critic. For other relevant artists see
my "History of Computer Art".
The lecture on "Cybernetics and the Pioneers of Computer Art"
summarizes my efforts to propose a start of the
The lasting legacy of the progressive royalty is displacement of
artistic, scientific and generally intellectual prowess by the
banality of minority membership(s). Empowering creepdoms of various
persuasions *is* the principal tool of identity politics, and we have
just encountered its limits.
I have just posted this on Facebook. It is not the sort of thing you
would expect on nettime, but is meant sincerely, even if I could
change my mind about a lot of it pretty quickly.
You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn't the
Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he
On 11/09/2016 11:04 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
Austria is next, and the "soziale Heimatpartei" is ready and fired
up. We will know if civil society remains stronger here on Dezember
4th. The political parties have already given up.
I agree with your analysis, Felix: the status quo for which the
So I live in a very blue coastal state. Every couple months I manage to get up
into the mountains. And every time I’ve been up there in the past couple
years, I’ve passed a large truck in testing camouflage. It’s an autonomous
truck, being run around and around and around the mountain to
I was also confident that Clinton would win. And I was even hoping
she would win, but what was I hoping for. I was hoping for the
continuation of a system that I know full well is unsustainable and
its continuation is undesirable.
Of course, I was hoping for that because the alternative on offer
The shock that now assails the ruling classes is in direct proportion
to their blindness. If you were shocked, then you shared in that
blindness.
Like the Remain camp in the UK, the US Democratic Party was sure of
its victory. Twenty years ago under the leadership of Bill Clinton,
the Dems had
Walter Hill, the director of Streets of Fire, mentioned in an interview
that he wanted to use every cliche known to man, and create a
celebration of cliches.
This seems to be the case with the anti-orange crowd, that lived in the
cliche world of identity politics divorced from the reality,
dear Thomas,
I really hate to say this, because I really respect your work, you are
a very good researcher but this piece once more perpetuates the myth
of a purely Western computer art and cybernetics. A few years ago this
might have been an oversight, one could have said there was not enough
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