http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/15/postmodernism-cutting-edge-to-museum?CMP=twt_iph/postmodernism-from-the-cutting-edge-to-the-museum-art-and-design-the-guardian Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital ]]> Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:03:29 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/15/postmodernism-cutting-edge-to-museum?CMP=twt_iph/postmodernism-from-the-cutting-edge-to-the-museum-art-and-design-the-guardian http://www.svetlanaboym.com/manifesto.htm “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check my connections, to follow the instructions carefully. I don't. I pull the paper out of the printer prematurely, shattering the image, leaving its out takes, stripes of transience, inkblots and traces of my hands on the professional glossy surface. Once the disoriented computer spat out a warning across the image “Do Not Copy,” an involuntary water mark that emerged from the depth of its disturbed memory. The communication error… ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:22:00 -0700 http://www.svetlanaboym.com/manifesto.htm http://museumviews.com/?I6aLwGm8 It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First of all, for many, "postmodernism" stood as a certain critical paradigm for art and theory. This is the sense that both Krauss and Foster mean it. Postmodernism embodies the "critique of essentialism," a rejection of totality, liberated irony; it was defined by genre jumping, institutional critique, deconstruction, and so on.

The problem with this "theoretical" definition of postmodernism seems to me to be its lack of historical… ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:56:00 -0700 http://museumviews.com/?I6aLwGm8 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739960.ece One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false". Whether it is natural or not, it would seem that the false – the extravagant, the fantastical, the grandiose – can at times be so seductive that we suspend our critical faculties in its consideration. Ronald Fritze, a historian and dean at Athens State University in Alabama, is concerned about, and clearly fascinated by, the pseudo-histories and pseudo-sciences – the stories of… ]]> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:00 -0700 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739960.ece http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=133 Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for his declaration that the logic of acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the modern world. However, Virilio's thought remains much misunderstood by many postmodern cultural theorists. In this article, and supporting the ground-breaking work of Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, I shall evaluate the contribution of Virilio's writings by suggesting that they exist beyond the terms of postmodernism and that they should be conceived of… ]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:34:00 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=133 http://www.nextnature.net/?p=3361 This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture, I will argue that we are now living in a society, in which simulations are often more influential, satisfying and meaningful than the things they are presumed to represent. Media technologies play a fundamental role in our cycle of meaning construction. This is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it entirely new. Yet, it has consequences for our concepts of virtual and real, which are less complementary, than… ]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:22:00 -0700 http://www.nextnature.net/?p=3361