Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Response
so apt you posted this ctheory stuff as our mode of exchange has become the virtual blog. using technology, talking about technology, jesus. completely changed my perspective on the techno culture. just watched "road stories for the flesh-eating future" film with the krokers.....i can't believe i haven't even heard of them before, what the fuuuck. very inspiring work, though it seems like a tough battle. im really going to peruse this ctheory stuff.....but man Data Overload for sure.
this week ive been home in new jersey, and its really boring, so inevitably ive been spending hours on the computer. which doesn't mean that i haven't been "doing anything", but a feeling of disconnection, alienation of course has taken over. privileging of the mind over the body. of course it is this actual environment as well here in new jersey which contributes to this.....friends from suburbia having left, dispersed to other places. but this is no excuse. i shouldn't hesitate to go into town, talk to strangers, meet new people, get into some shit. but from experience, i still privilege the mind. a lot of the time when i am socializing, i don't feel like im being "productive". but i need to make it productive. are my standards of individuals too high because i know i can retreat to a computer and instantly download information to my dome piece? i give up too easily with people, and really people are what i ideally want to interact with most. and its strange that most of what i work on alone is for the social. it is also hard to be imaginative when you're alone. being alone is boring, even if you are reading, learning, "educating" yourself. as opposed to information access being predominantly available in these privileged, isolated, private, indoors environments, im thinking that whatever that experience is offering, it needs to serve the public, outdoors, social, physically interactive. and the social is becoming more and more virtual....(facebook)...(i don't know where to go with this....)
do you have any ideas how we can raise money for a space? i think we need to try and do this.
one last thing - if you haven't seen Sunshine, the movie, i highly recommend it. i'll be back here with an update soon on some anthropological work im feeling critical of.
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I know what you mean. So often I get frustrated with people and forego or impede any dialogue from developing because i think they are so completely oblivious to many of the concerns that occupy my time. It is something we have to work on because it is not only about me (or us), but everyone. We can all learn from the most unexpected situations, the most unexpected individuals, and these are sometimes the most illuminating experiences. It's difficult, but we can do it.
ReplyDeleteAnd your note on technology's propensity to alienate people and isolate them in their own matrix-rooms is something I want to reexamine. I think Lucky Dragons are a good example of the way in which technology can re-mediate the experience of alienation, or a separation that conforms to the artist/audience dichotomy. How can technology, or more specifically, our the way we use it function as a catalyst for a horizontal collective experience? For one thing, I don't think our culture is ready for the technological material we are currently using/developing. We are kids playing with cool lights and cool toys with enormous power, a power so implicit that begins to feed on the social like a parasite instead of creating a mutually enriching experience within the social.
(I have more to say on this- will post later)