Archival art > 14/09/09

Contemporary art [noun]. Screenshots, photos, written and video documentation [of art, happening someplace missed]. Sometimes referred to as archival art or the remains of art.

The Pleasure of the Social Web > 25/07/09

In 1982, Jauss proposed the term geniessen in his Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics to identify aesthetic pleasure. It was a reaction against Adorno’s “aesthetics of negativity,” which he rejected as “aesthetic purism,” as well as against the Barthesian pleasures of the text which, in Jauss’ words, is the “French counterpart to Adorno’s aesthetics in certain aspects” (29).

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Patriarchal reductionism > 11/02/09

Social and neural nodes
evolutionary memes

traversed by noise
humdrum of internet
media technologies
neighbours chatting across the fence
workplace platitudes
rip-offs and the scientific thruth of the day
in an unordered list mashed up in art

hyperrealities & social narcissism & CBT