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In these notes I will argue that critical thinkers who are usually hostile
to Creative Industries rhetoric should be prepared to take the risk of
contamination by engaging
The Fearful Demon of Value Pluralism
My name is legion: for we are many Negri and Hardt, in their book
Multitude, relate an incident from the Bible when Jesus faced with a man
possessed by devils and asks him his name (since a name is required for
exorcism) the demon inhabiting the man, responds
Maybe its time to turn to the writings of a true art lover
Someone who values in the possibility of radical singularity and
autonomous expression.
So let me recommend Art critic and theorist Thierry de Duves wonderful
little book, Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx, as a useful way to engage
with
In the interest of avoiding the conflict free zone that worries the authors the
following
1. Goodbye to Creative Industries
A creepy discourse on creativity has captured cultural and economic policy.
Creativity invokes a certain pharmacological numbness among its spruikers ???
a
Space Opera as Ejector Seat: JG Ballard's Inner Space
We are currently being invited to revisit the heroic era of Science fiction
in the classic form of the space opera.
The launch of Christopher Nolan?s sci-fi blockbuster, Intergalactic, which
gamely
reboots a Kubric like fusion of inner and
Maybe one aspect of the -Law of the Meme- (take for example the 1% meme) is
that meme's sometimes persist far longer that instances of mass mobilisation.
Memes that spring from even brief crystalisations of underlying social
movements can be one of the ways in which important shifts in values
Spaces for the Language of Politics
It will be well known in these parts that European Commission is involved in
an anti-trust struggle/investigation with Google. The threat of a $6 billion
fine may hurt, just a bit, but in the end it will be little more than a
pinprick given the mountain of
After the carnival like excitement around the Scottish referendum the
clich? that is echoing around mainstream media discourse is that that
politics in the UK can now never be the same again. That new levels
of voter and popular participation in a political process has surpassed
anything we have
Disobedient Objects: Folk Politics: Diabolical Math
One of the few shows to address the highly contentious relationship between
art and activism, in a way that takes us into new and more generative
territory, is the exhibition -Disobedient Objects- currently to be seen at
London?s Victoria and
I'd like to engage with the last paragraph of Florian's post-
And ask whether the generally low pay and insecure conditions for practitioners
of what have become known as the creative economy really is such a new
phenomenon?
Are the average earnings enjoyed/endured by commercial photographers
To me, it is somehow super clear that Facebook is evil. Not hard to
understand. But Google? Why are tensions rising so high lately around
them? Look at the tone of the Cory Doctorow blog post to Boing Boing?
Don't get me wrong. But have they really gone down lately? In my
humble view they are
David
On 26 Apr 2014, at 10:34, Saul Albert wrote:
Hi David,
On 25 April 2014 16:01, d.garcia d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk
wrote:
In Art We Trust
The trick KRB seem to be pulling off (whether Peperkamp knows it or not) is
to subordinate the ostensible artistic value of the coins
Felix Wrote
Where the terms makes no sense, in my view (and also in Florian's),
is sociologically. The most powerful forces that transform globalized
societies, are all dependent on, and amplified by, digital
technologies. If anything, we are in the middle of the historical
run of this
Browsing through the files of Amsterdam?s Institute for Social History (as
you do) I found Tjebbe van Tijan?s excellent essay written in 1998. Below
is a short taster. Full essay to be found:
http://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/digitial-ways-forgetting.pdf
Digital ways of
Books as a gateway drug- In discussion with with Marcel Mars
http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/1012/
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At the culminating event of the Post Media Lab at Leuphana University, L?neburg
Taking Care of Things- I got to know and work with artist/hacker Marcel
Mars
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