Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs

2021-04-27 Thread Ted Byfield

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

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Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs

2021-04-27 Thread d . garcia


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

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Re: 3 or 4 good links on NFTs

2021-04-27 Thread d . garcia




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

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