It’s a way of representing, experimenting, and applying. That crashing wave on the split screen looks just like an ocean but it’s an accumulation, instead, of leftover sandwiches, nitrogen tubes, copper wiring, clusters of positrons, half-finished thoughts, magazine racks, brand new tennis shoes, and what appears to be the shattered remnants of an unimpressive Linux …
Monthly Archives: January 2008
An answer to empiricists
To trace a rhizome, locate agency. Agency liberates the rhizome from the tree. Find where decisions are made, and find determination. Historical narrative, genealogical sociology, anthropological genealogy, post-structuralist contextualization— this is the way to flatten the tree and to give depth to causality. Mind and materiality are artifacts of dimensionless storytelling; Destroy duality by leaping, …
Faking it: the art of Pop
The Producer, the Painter, the Pop Artist. Not reproduction through art but art through reproduction. The Hyperconformist simulating the very mechanisms of the System in order to destroy, reassemble. Identity, infinitely reproduced, becoming a silkscreened icon of immortality. Hypocrisy, Fame, Lies: the only way out. The Rebel, the Prophet, the Pop Star. Only one side: …
