[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[Stephen Hastings-King]

hail comrades.

3 unrelated notes.

1. the category of aesthetics is a problem. classical aesthetic theory takes
the work as given for it's point of departure.
bourgeois and materialist forms of aesthetic theory differ primarily in the
interpretive frameworks they bring to bear on the artwork.
in both, the processes of making are erased behind the work as totality and
are replaced with one or another version of the mythical Artist.
it seems to me that one of the many conceptual tasks that await us--whatever
that means--out there in the world is to undo this category and the
constraints that enframe it.
this isn't exactly a new idea---lots of folk have addressed it one way or
another since the 60s at least--in alot of cases, the way folk went at it
was to tack on autobiographical statements after fairly straightforward
aesthetic pronouncements.


2. these days, everyone's a situationist.

3. i like j.g. ballard's short text "the secret history of world war 3" as a
point of departure for thinking about what he calls the ultra-royalism of
television.
it's in the re/search edition of atrocity exhibition, and makes for a nice
innoculation relative to the spectacle of investiture to which we are
presently being subject.

ok so there's 4.
i noticed in kim's mail of a couple days ago references to critiques of
information theory (shannon et al).
any pointers for reading material?

thanks

stephen

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