Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
nd every other ism that has ever been tried--is just > > total balderdash. > > Sascha D. Freudenheim > > sas...@sascha.com > > @SaschaDF > > On 7/6/18 7:39 AM, marc.garrett wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > It's rare that you'll see any posts from me on this list. However, I > > > > thought, perhaps some of you may be interested in the subject of > > > > 'Proprietorial Systems', and my take on it. As some of you may know, > > > > I've been working with Furtherfield for over 20 years now. The context > > > > of the paper reflects a small example of my autoethnographical PhD, at > > > > Birkbeck, London. I am now in my write up period, and will be spending > > > > the next 6 months in it until it's all finished. > > > > Wishing you well. > > > > marc > > > > Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett. > > > > "Proprietorial domination is the presumption of ownership not only over > > > > our psychic states of existence but also through the material objects we > > > > possess and use daily, and this extends into and through our use of > > > > digital networks every day." > > > > http://www.aprja.net/unlocking-proprietorial-systems-for-artistic-practice/ > > > > Introduction > > > > The cultural, political and economic systems in place do not work for > > > > most people. They support a privileged, international class that grows > > > > richer while imposing increasing uncertainty on others, producing > > > > endless wars, and enhancing the conditions of inequality, austerity, > > > > debt, and climate change, to own everything under the rule of > > > > neoliberalism. David Harvey argues that the permeation of neoliberalism > > > > exists within every aspect of our lives, and it has been masked by a > > > > repeated rhetoric around “individual freedom, liberty, personal > > > > responsibility and the virtues of privatization, the free market and > > > > free trade”. (Harvey 11) Thus; legitimizing the continuation of and > > > > repeating of policies that consolidate capitalistic powers. Pierre > > > > Dardot and Christian Laval in Manufacturing the Neoliberal Subject, say > > > > we have not yet emerged from “the ‘iron cage’ of the capitalist economy > > > > […] everyone is enjoined to construct their own individual little ‘iron > > > > cage’.” (Dardot and Laval 263) > > > > If we are, as Dardot & Laval put it co-designing our own iron cages, how > > > > do we find ways to be less dominated by these overpowering > > > > infrastructures and systems? How do we build fresh, independent places, > > > > spaces and identities, in relation to our P2P, artistic and cultural > > > > practices, individually and or collectively – when, our narratives are > > > > dominated by elite groups typically biased towards isolating and > > > > crushing alternatives? Does this mean that critical thought, aligned > > > > with artistic and experimental cultural ventures, along with creatively > > > > led technological practices, are all doomed to perpetuate a state of > > > > submission within a proprietorial absolute? > > > > To unpack the above questions we look at different types of > > > > proprietorial systems, some locked and unlocked, and consider their > > > > influence on creative forms of production across the fields of the > > > > traditional art world, and media art culture. We look at how artists are > > > > dealing with these issues through their artistic agency: individually, > > > > collaboratively, or as part of a group or collective. This includes > > > > looking at the intentions behind the works: their production and > > > > cultural and societal contexts, where different sets of values and new > > > > possibilities are emerging, across the practice of art, academia, and > > > > technology, and thus, the world. > > > > Part of RESEARCH VALUES | A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Values > > > > | VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, 2018 | Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff > > > > Cox - http://www.aprja.net/research-values/ > > > > Marc Garrett > > > > Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. > > > > Art, technology and social change, since 1996 > > >
Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
Hallo all, This argument between "things are getting worse" and "things are getting better" comes back regularly - though (on this list at least) the former dominates, while the latter asserts its contradiction. The prevalent view here appears to be that our culture of capitalist, consumerist uber-exploitation, that has its origins in European (white, patriarchal, colonialist) modern technical society, is going to be the death of human culture and civilisation in its current state. Indeed, while I find this view coherent (and have so expressed myself on occasion), I find myself becoming more and more irritable with its constant re-enunciation... and I am trying to figure out why my hackles are rising against something that, after all, I am in agreement. Perhaps because it is all so repetitive - I no longer read to the end of many interesting posts and articles. Or because it is so negative, yet one has no choice but to compose with it. Perhaps it is because I am unaccommodated by what I detect to be a moralising, self-righteous undercurrent in its critique. Perhaps by the detection of grim satisfaction in the rebuttals targeting the optimists who make out that things are improving. Or by a pervading sense of helplessness. Or by what I detect as being a religiously fervent anger in the naming of villains (the capitalist-militarist oligarchy, etc.). Perhaps what irks me, fundamentally, is that there is widespread recourse to a denunciatory posture that I find profoundly problematic. This is paradoxical, because there is so much in the current state of humanity and the planet which merits absolute and utter denunciation. Yet the act of denunciation is sterile, counter-productive, and a side-stepping of responsibility. The example for this is the child’s denunciation of his parents for having brought her into the world without her prior consent. In other words, though one is well advised to denounce the particular actions of groups that cause harm to others and the environment, it is absurd to denounce the human planetary condition as a whole. Our tragic present is the consequence of complex stages of the historic rise of modern, technological, capitalistic society of which we are, whether we like it or not actors, and for which we ultimately cannot escape collective responsibility in spite of our opposition to its terms. Rejection by denunciation is a cop out. Let it not be forgotten that this is a socio-technico-cultural model so outwardly attractive that when the colonists were kicked out, it was retained by the newly liberated countries (even those adopting Marxist regimes, as China demonstrates). If Thatcher's "there is no alternative" is so poignant, is it not because five hundred years of history, constructing the modernist "Utopia", has at each step eliminated all other possibles in a complex process of ferocious, monolithic evolution based upon destructions and cooptations? Thus I finish a complaint singularly deficient in answers, where it appears that there is no escape. Yet, countering this with a blanket denunciatory posture seems to me terribly futile: its corollary, a sort of dogma of despair, fills me with dismay. Joseph Rabie. > Le 8 juil. 2018 à 15:35, mp a écrit : > > > > On 07/07/18 13:24, Florian Cramer wrote: >>> >>> And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural, >>> political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be >>> called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global >>> poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates. >>> >> >> Let me guess - your source is Hans Rosling? > > Peven Stinker spouts similarly. Here is John Gray reviewing: > > John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war: > > "The Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels > of Our Nature: a history of violence and humanity (2011) has not only > been an international bestseller – more than a thousand pages long and > containing a formidable array of graphs and statistics, the book has > established something akin to a contemporary orthodoxy. It is now not > uncommon to find it stated, as though it were a matter of fact, that > human beings are becoming less violent and more altruistic." > > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining > > & > > "Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a > feeble sermon for rattled liberals - To think of this book as any kind > of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s > laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side > of history”." - > > https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon > > # distributed via : no commercial use without permission > #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative
Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
On 07/07/18 13:24, Florian Cramer wrote: >> >> And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural, >> political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be >> called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global >> poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates. >> > > Let me guess - your source is Hans Rosling? Peven Stinker spouts similarly. Here is John Gray reviewing: John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war: "The Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: a history of violence and humanity (2011) has not only been an international bestseller – more than a thousand pages long and containing a formidable array of graphs and statistics, the book has established something akin to a contemporary orthodoxy. It is now not uncommon to find it stated, as though it were a matter of fact, that human beings are becoming less violent and more altruistic." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining & "Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals - To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side of history”." - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
> > And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural, > political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be > called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global > poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates. > Let me guess - your source is Hans Rosling? Here's a different take on the matter: http://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/a-confused-statistician/ Florian # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
Ermahgerd, where to start. How about... The cultural, political and economic systems in place do not work for most people. They support a privileged, international class that grows richer while imposing increasing uncertainty on others, producing endless wars, and enhancing the conditions of inequality, austerity, debt, and climate change, to own everything under the rule of neoliberalism. It seems to me that these two sentences fall victim to exactly the thing you're bemoaning. Under the well-established political theory of "It Takes One to Know One," this reads like a statement from someone belonging to the privileged, international class. (That's not as harsh an accusation as it may sound, as it comes from someone who also belongs to that class.) I will happily admit that yes, the scales of wealth distribution are significantly out of whack. So significantly that "significantly" is an understatement. And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural, political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates. Also, those "cultural, political and economic systems in place" have contributed to the creation of a vast ecosystem of tools and technologies that allow people to communicate, to create, and even to travel, across great distances and at significantly lower entry costs than ever before. (And yes, yes, the financial/market processes around some of these tools have also have contributed greatly to the wealth gap.) Also, those "cultural, political and economic systems in place" have created massive classes of people who--despite their iron cages!--have decided that fuck it, certain work is beneath them. We've seen a fair number of examples of this in the U.S. (and elsewhere), where the natives (so to speak) don't want to take tough jobs in slaughterhouses or working in the fields. The pay can be high and it doesn't matter; it's beneath them and so they won't do it. So immigrants, legally arrived or not, will happily take their place... ...but it hardly seems fair then to basically blame the hard-working immigrant for creating the iron cages for all those disaffected/uppity poor nationalist natives who don't like the jobs that the "cultural, political and economic systems in place" are offering them, despite the fact that they're ... jobs. Am I saying that things are not tough for many, many people? Absolutely not. The debt load for many people is too high. The price of higher education is both insane and nonsensical. The climate change challenges are broad, unresolved, and frankly, unknown (and thus terrifying). But to pretend that despite all of that, *everything* is in the shitter, that everyone is in a cage--or in that cage because of "neoliberalism," as opposed to any and every other ism that has ever been tried--is just total balderdash. Sascha D. Freudenheim sas...@sascha.com @SaschaDF On 7/6/18 7:39 AM, marc.garrett wrote: Hi all, It's rare that you'll see any posts from me on this list. However, I thought, perhaps some of you may be interested in the subject of 'Proprietorial Systems', and my take on it. As some of you may know, I've been working with Furtherfield for over 20 years now. The context of the paper reflects a small example of my autoethnographical PhD, at Birkbeck, London. I am now in my write up period, and will be spending the next 6 months in it until it's all finished. Wishing you well. marc Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett. "Proprietorial domination is the presumption of ownership not only over our psychic states of existence but also through the material objects we possess and use daily, and this extends into and through our use of digital networks every day." http://www.aprja.net/unlocking-proprietorial-systems-for-artistic-practice/ Introduction The cultural, political and economic systems in place do not work for most people. They support a privileged, international class that grows richer while imposing increasing uncertainty on others, producing endless wars, and enhancing the conditions of inequality, austerity, debt, and climate change, to own everything under the rule of neoliberalism. David Harvey argues that the permeation of neoliberalism exists within every aspect of our lives, and it has been masked by a repeated rhetoric around “individual freedom, liberty, personal responsibility and the virtues of privatization, the free market and free trade”. (Harvey 11) Thus; legitimizing the continuation of and repeating of policies that consolidate capitalistic powers. Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval in Manufacturing the Neoliberal Sub
Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
Hi all, It's rare that you'll see any posts from me on this list. However, I thought, perhaps some of you may be interested in the subject of 'Proprietorial Systems', and my take on it. As some of you may know, I've been working with Furtherfield for over 20 years now. The context of the paper reflects a small example of my autoethnographical PhD, at Birkbeck, London. I am now in my write up period, and will be spending the next 6 months in it until it's all finished. Wishing you well. marc Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett. "Proprietorial domination is the presumption of ownership not only over our psychic states of existence but also through the material objects we possess and use daily, and this extends into and through our use of digital networks every day." http://www.aprja.net/unlocking-proprietorial-systems-for-artistic-practice/ Introduction The cultural, political and economic systems in place do not work for most people. They support a privileged, international class that grows richer while imposing increasing uncertainty on others, producing endless wars, and enhancing the conditions of inequality, austerity, debt, and climate change, to own everything under the rule of neoliberalism. David Harvey argues that the permeation of neoliberalism exists within every aspect of our lives, and it has been masked by a repeated rhetoric around “individual freedom, liberty, personal responsibility and the virtues of privatization, the free market and free trade”. (Harvey 11) Thus; legitimizing the continuation of and repeating of policies that consolidate capitalistic powers. Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval in Manufacturing the Neoliberal Subject, say we have not yet emerged from “the ‘iron cage’ of the capitalist economy […] everyone is enjoined to construct their own individual little ‘iron cage’.” (Dardot and Laval 263) If we are, as Dardot & Laval put it co-designing our own iron cages, how do we find ways to be less dominated by these overpowering infrastructures and systems? How do we build fresh, independent places, spaces and identities, in relation to our P2P, artistic and cultural practices, individually and or collectively – when, our narratives are dominated by elite groups typically biased towards isolating and crushing alternatives? Does this mean that critical thought, aligned with artistic and experimental cultural ventures, along with creatively led technological practices, are all doomed to perpetuate a state of submission within a proprietorial absolute? To unpack the above questions we look at different types of proprietorial systems, some locked and unlocked, and consider their influence on creative forms of production across the fields of the traditional art world, and media art culture. We look at how artists are dealing with these issues through their artistic agency: individually, collaboratively, or as part of a group or collective. This includes looking at the intentions behind the works: their production and cultural and societal contexts, where different sets of values and new possibilities are emerging, across the practice of art, academia, and technology, and thus, the world. Part of RESEARCH VALUES | A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Values | VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, 2018 | Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox - http://www.aprja.net/research-values/ Marc Garrett Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. Art, technology and social change, since 1996 http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK Latest post: Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems interview: with Artists, Gretta Louw, Antonio Roberts & Annie Abrahams https://bit.ly/2HQM1bs Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
