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Multidisciplinary discourse and critical shitposting about art, tech, and culture in web3 and beyond.
Excited that McKenzie Wark liked my post, but also mortified that it was a shill post for something on Shape L2 of all things and also i misspelled her first name 😭
According to Marx's "Labor Theory of Value," one shouldn't spend time working to redo what the owners just undid. Ain't no way I'm manually inviting 1000 people to this channel, so here's the invite link. Bots and spammers will be banned.
https://warpcast.com/~/channel/theory/join?inviteCode=xqRHyZ8aLBvXtm9XZlqXqA
https://warpcast.com/~/channel/theory/join?inviteCode=xqRHyZ8aLBvXtm9XZlqXqA
@mvf talked about this article in a recent post and I've decided to share it here because I think is relevant. What Jerry Saltz is arguing here about Zombie Formalism, can be applied to other styles and even disciplines in art like music. Consider an advanced case of putrefaction like the Zombie Schlager for example.
100 $ DEGEN to the first one who answers with the name of the movie to which this frame belongs 🧟♂️LOL
https://www.vulture.com/2014/06/why-new-abstract-paintings-look-the-same.html
100 $ DEGEN to the first one who answers with the name of the movie to which this frame belongs 🧟♂️LOL
https://www.vulture.com/2014/06/why-new-abstract-paintings-look-the-same.html
As some of you may have already heard, the channels system is changing on Friday to an invite-only system. While I appreciate efforts to mitigate all the bots, I'm not a fan of gatekeeping, especially when it comes to things like "theory," which should be accessible to all. So in order to have as many followers as possible converted to members, I removed myself from moderating this channel. Once the changes happen, I'll consider appointing some moderators if anyone wants to help grow this humble channel. Much love to everyone who has posted, commented, or just lurked quietly ❤️
This is a real, and hard problem. The (de)generosity economy has great potential but incentives need to be done right or they can backfire horribly.
We do have great minds here in this space so I hope we make real progress. Are there any discussion groups going on already? Please point me in their way if you know any 🙏
We do have great minds here in this space so I hope we make real progress. Are there any discussion groups going on already? Please point me in their way if you know any 🙏
oh also, if you're wondering from where the hell 'lore' suddenly became a thing, i personally attribute its rise to Shumon Basar's trilogy of essays on 'Lorecore' published in @zora last year.
Here's the first of the 3 texts. I thoroughly recommend all 3 - Basar is excellent.
https://zine.zora.co/the-lexicon-of-lorecore-shumon-basar
Here's the first of the 3 texts. I thoroughly recommend all 3 - Basar is excellent.
https://zine.zora.co/the-lexicon-of-lorecore-shumon-basar
Yuval Noah Hariri: “The history of print and witch-hunting indicates that an unregulated information market doesn’t necessarily lead people to identify and correct their own errors, because it may well prioritize outrage over truth”.
Elon Musk: “Hold my beer.”
Elon Musk: “Hold my beer.”
RIP Frederic Jameson
Here's a bit from:
"Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf
Here's a bit from:
"Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf
What comes around…
Why Buy Art ? 🤓
by @y0b
she wrote this in 2018!!!! https://www.coinspiration.org/redefining-ownership-rare-digital-art-market/
by @y0b
she wrote this in 2018!!!! https://www.coinspiration.org/redefining-ownership-rare-digital-art-market/
today’s rehearsal set up
weekend theory
My toxic trait is that I literally refuse to read fiction bc I’m too obsessed with reading about digital and physical infrastructure theory from 2002
The fact that an image looks shit but in a good way at like 40 - 30/25 kb but then pure shit in a shit way from 25-10kb is really begging my vibe actually. any compression kings out there?
Thank you to everyone who follows this humble channel. It's not easy out here. ❤️
Wake up bae, new Yuk Hui essay dropped
(haven't read it in full yet bc I was out on a shoot, but plz feel free to pontificate and discuss)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/147/621569/planetarization-and-heimatlosigkeit-part-1/
(haven't read it in full yet bc I was out on a shoot, but plz feel free to pontificate and discuss)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/147/621569/planetarization-and-heimatlosigkeit-part-1/
Last night I watched the documentary "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck", from 2015.
Lots of interesting archive material that I hadn't seen before - home videos and audio tapes. But I gotta say I hated the film.
Felt like a never-ending exploitation and aesthetization of mental health issues. I felt like Kurt Cobain was portrayed as a victim as the film spreads blame for his sorrows. Or a bad (worse) taste "13 reasons why" for Kurt Cobain.
Nirvana was very important for me, for my generation. The film got me thinking about why we don't see anything that mix of sorrowful, visceral and explosive energy anymore.
(There are still great agressive political songs. And I'm not counting metal because it seems like an either too escapist or fascist environment nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
I want to believe that it's because attention to mental health improved over the decades and young people get to sing about other stuff now. And I think that's a lot thanks to cultural expressions like Nirvana.
Lots of interesting archive material that I hadn't seen before - home videos and audio tapes. But I gotta say I hated the film.
Felt like a never-ending exploitation and aesthetization of mental health issues. I felt like Kurt Cobain was portrayed as a victim as the film spreads blame for his sorrows. Or a bad (worse) taste "13 reasons why" for Kurt Cobain.
Nirvana was very important for me, for my generation. The film got me thinking about why we don't see anything that mix of sorrowful, visceral and explosive energy anymore.
(There are still great agressive political songs. And I'm not counting metal because it seems like an either too escapist or fascist environment nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
I want to believe that it's because attention to mental health improved over the decades and young people get to sing about other stuff now. And I think that's a lot thanks to cultural expressions like Nirvana.
The more i think about the Chiang essay in the New Yorker the more i find it weak and reactionary. For one, he completely misunderstands how artists use AI in their work, even in terms of text outputs. Visual artists train models, create conceptual frameworks, go through 1000s of images/videos in their outputs, do an insane amount of post-production, just to create one good work of art. No one is going to ask ChatGPT to write James Joyce II for them with a single prompt. Instead they will ask for character descriptions, setting descriptions, bits of dialogue here and there, and then edit those together. I don't think that's bad in-and-of itself and i don't think it will be the end of literature either. I would even argue that the US creative-writing-MFA-mill already managed to industrialize substandard generic shlock writing before AI got a chance to do it.
"For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmland as fertilizer. It was rich in nutrients, and it helped keep the sludge out of landfills.
But a growing body of research shows that this black sludge, made from the sewage that flows from homes and factories, can contain heavy concentrations of chemicals thought to increase the risk of certain types of cancer and to cause birth defects and developmental delays in children."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/climate/pfas-fertilizer-sludge-farm.html
But a growing body of research shows that this black sludge, made from the sewage that flows from homes and factories, can contain heavy concentrations of chemicals thought to increase the risk of certain types of cancer and to cause birth defects and developmental delays in children."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/climate/pfas-fertilizer-sludge-farm.html
Good commentary by Henrique. Brazil also has laws against hate speech, discrimination, and disinformation. Moments like this it's important to listen to actual Brazilians and not politicians funded by multinationals and/or cartels.