MachineMachine /stream - tagged with contemporary http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/1044/ by Hito Steyerl

A standard way of relating politics to art assumes that art represents political issues in one way or another. But there is a much more interesting perspective: the politics of the field of art as a place of work.1 Simply look at what it does—not what it shows.
Amongst all other forms of art, fine art has been most closely linked to post-Fordist speculation, with bling, boom, and bust. Contemporary art is no unworldly discipline nestled away in some remote ivory tower. On the contrary, it is squarely placed in the neoliberal thick… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:19:16 -0700 http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/1044/ Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures: Colin Marshall talks to Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the generally non-mainstream since 1982, featuring a span of artists from Ornette Coleman to Björk to David Sylvian to Jim O’Rourke to field recordists like Lee Patterson to emerging Chinese sounds artists like Yun Jun. The magazine is also well known as a rarity in its industry for both its profitability and its loyal, growing readership. Colin Marshall originally conducted this conversation on the public radio program and podcast The… ]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:51:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html On Seeing (an Imitation) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/01/on-seeing-an-imitation.html

by Daniel Rourke

“Mimesis here is not the representation of one thing by another, the relation of resemblance or of identification between two beings, the reproduction of a product of nature by a product of art. It is not the relation of two products but of two productions. And of two freedoms... 'True' mimesis is between two producing subjects and not between two produced things.”

Jacques Derrida, Economimesis

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