Constellation: Technics
The inseperable integrated inorganic and abstract tools and affordances of humans, from technological gadgets to language itself.
The Soul Machine
Source: Soul Machine by Sunflower Soul Enzymatic Knowledge Machines “A theory is exactly like a box of tools. It has nothing to do with the signifier. It must be useful. It must function.” Deleuze and Guattari [2]. This theory of the precarious contemporary position of subjectivity is intended as a symbolically textured tool, an “enzymatic…
Artulacra
Source:: Glitch by Lezet Value in, garbage out: on Al art and hegemony Excerpt from Article by R. H. Lossin (link to full text below) ”Hegemony,” wrote Raymond Williams, “is the continual making and remaking of an effective dominant culture.” The concept of hegemony was used by Williams as a way to rescue culture from…
The Deadnet
Source: The Swedish Rhapsody by Irdial-Discs and Akin Fernandez Technoethics Postscript (Excerpt) Within ten years, it is likely that a significant majority of the content that people experience online will be AI generated, and on the basis of current trends, it will not be long after that until internet content is almost entirely created by…
Ping Bodies, Ping Minds
Source: Space (altered version) by Ryoji Ikeda. “To the extent that memory is exteriorized, it is no longer the object of a practice, but of a consumption… the technical object is not a simple ‘tool’—it is a ‘pharmacont,’ both a cure and a poison. In the positive, it allows us to ‘know’ beyond our skin.…
The Text of Self
Source: Music for Solo Performer by Alvin Lucier. What Can Go Wrong in the Mirror (Excerpt) What the orders of grammatization from primeval to communicative to situational call for is a unity of the text of self—that is, a final order of narrativization that represents a coherent story of self that acts as “justification” for…
