Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
Facebook has a genocide problem.
Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?
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Generational Melancholy
Every generation reinvents ennui.
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My Space Dream
My space dream is to explain all of this mystery and beauty; to uncover or cultivate that logical emptiness and discontinuity at the heart of sentience and existence. It is a simple dream…
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Uniform Individuality
Aspirations to difference and self-individuation through fashion, personal taste or behaviour are really just an evolution of tribal identity and group membership. Belonging to a group that does not belong to a group by virtue of adaptively-defined expressions and experiences of individuality is still to belong to a group.
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Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.
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Ch’an Art: Disengaging the Ego
There is no one thing that art is or does and where we find this notion most powerfully and consequentially present is in those artefacts which successfully disassemble not only pictorial space, but through this – the perceiving mind itself.
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Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
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The Dissociative Art of Leonardo Vargas
The art of Leonardo Vargas invokes the ghost of Francis Bacon’s disturbing vision but arguably finds itself arriving in an altogether different aesthetic solution to a representation of human identity and the psychological dissonance of individuation.
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Art without Boundaries
Where does art stop and the person begin? Is the frame of the canvas the boundary? Is the wall, the room, the building the boundary? Is the audience the definitive edge and boundary condition between the artefact and the meaning or interpretation?
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