http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/222 Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground.

Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any stable ground on which to base metaphysical claims or foundational political myths. At best, we are faced with temporary, contingent, and partial attempts at grounding. But if there is no stable ground available for our social lives and philosophical aspirations, the consequence must be a permanent, or at least intermittent state of free fall for subjects and objects alike. But why don’t we notice?
]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:49:08 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/222 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHba4IAdsI ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:05:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHba4IAdsI http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/07/gravity-sucks.php Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a "consequence of the curvature of spacetime which governs the motion of inertial objects" and what we call gravity. In what has come to be sometimes called Gravity Art, there is actually a couple of artists who have chosen to use it as their medium, often in somewhat beautiful yet futile actions, "heroic failures". Among these however, there's different directions of movement, namely down (submission) and up (escape). The most… ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:04:00 -0700 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/07/gravity-sucks.php