Theory

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Multidisciplinary discourse and critical shitposting about art, tech, and culture in web3 and beyond.

‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
Neil Postman must be somewhere laughing at this

https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/

Another beautiful data analysis that is also a performance.
By @takenstheorem. Featured quote by @simondlr. Highlights by @y0b.

https://takenstheorem.medium.com/aesthetic-commodities-through-a-collective-filter-105adfad2dfb

/theory Great channel! I had not realized the level of thought behind many of the web3 products. I am enjoying learning about the theories and strategy behind the web3 creations. As an example the more I learn about degen the more I understand the thought that went into it's creation.

Doing my part to decolonize thanksgiving by making moqueca today 🐠🥘

theory? by @aethernet

In 2013, David Graeber published an essay in the radical magazine Strike!, “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs,” in which he argued the futility of many contemporary jobs, particularly those in the fields of finance, law, human resources, public relations, and consulting. Its popularity, with more than a million hits, crashed the website. The essay was later expanded into a book published in 2018.

Marxist Machinima Art🤓

Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

https://vimeo.com/728924613

'I raise no objection to television’s junk. The best things on television are its junk, and no one and nothing is seriously threatened by it. Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem'

Neil Postman 1985, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Artwork: 'Trash Television' by @roccano

“Simulacra and Simulation”
By Jean Baudrillard

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVkYou
You don’t have bad Internet, I’m just datamoshing 💃

Reply to this cast if you want to be a “member” of the /theory channel

@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

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 🙏

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

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.”

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

What comes around…