hail comrades.<br><br>3 unrelated notes.<br><br>1. the category of aesthetics is a problem. classical aesthetic theory takes the work as given for it's point of departure. <br>bourgeois and materialist forms of aesthetic theory differ primarily in the interpretive frameworks they bring to bear on the artwork.<br>
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.<br>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.<br>
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.<br>
<br><br>2. these days, everyone's a situationist.<br><br>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.<br>
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.<br><br>ok so there's 4.<br>i noticed in kim's mail of a couple days ago references to critiques of information theory (shannon et al).<br>
any pointers for reading material?<br><br>thanks<br><br>stephen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM, AlgoMantra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:algomantra@gmail.com">algomantra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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