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"What is good is what is new, in both form and content. A
product of the eye, not of mind and habit. What is good
forgets whatever form it might have had, and is unexpected."
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Media are about archiving.
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Only very few can treat it as a tool.
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Media, these days, are still partial mediautopian moment, to
invade, and connect all senses
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What is the driving force behind this Inclination to
Synergy?
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proletarized 'knowledge workers'. A meta-techno
intelligensia is on the rise
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"The concept of intelligensia must not be confused with the
notion of intellectuals. Its members think of themselves as
united by something more than mere interest in ideas; they
conceive themselves as being a dedicated order, almost a
secular priesthood, devoted to the spreading of a specific
attitude to life, something like a gospel." (Isaiah Berlin)
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Active social vectors are essential components
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The logic of the new has to abandoned altogether. A first
step could be the acceptance of technology being in a phase
of permanent revolution (not out of control). The second
would be to build in feedback loops on social, political and
cultural level regarding the endless repetition of the
R&D-introduction-acceptance chain. One day the new itself
will be wornout concept.
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Concepts, models and technical features have been
incorporated, while stripping off redundant libertarian
elements.
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The Wired Generation is not in such a fortunate situation to
face actual developments. It had to cut all ties to
'European' ways of thinking such as negation, critique,
deconstruction, scepticism, etc. Until they passed all
exits. From there, only one discourse was left: the how-to
management sales talk. The road ahead, can only lead
straight into Paradise. Or we might all be struck by the
Apocalypse... In the early days, it was enough to project
some trends into the future, without any solid analysis of
the present. But these days, with the digital revolution
well under way, the future is becoming much harder to
predict. There is a much more dynamic, complex image, with
culture, economics and politics interfering into simplistic,
linear out-of-control creed
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What would Nietzsche have thought of the Californian
Uebermensch, preaching to embrace the herd?
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It could be useful to have a heretic psychology of the
virtual class.
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Detailed, critical historical studies, going back to the
birth time of 'new' media, the period between the two world
wars, modernism, the hay days of film, and then the period
straight after WW II. We can't have enough of them.
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develop a civic post historie(s) de media(s), to balance the
hermeneutic reading of media, which can only 'lay out' the
essence of phenomenon (software, interface etc.) through its
roots.
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It is said that visual arts are playing a creative role in
the R&D of the visual languages for human-machine interfaces
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This is the actual idealism of the media arts system. It
dreams of the fusing of all relevant disciplines,
contributing to the fundamental research and development of
new technologies.
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Electronic arts, incapable of taking a real avant-garde
stand, has maneuvered itself in an impossible position. It
is neither participating in fundamental research, nor does
it have content, compared to 'regular' websites, videos or
audio pieces. At best they are form studies, esthetic
explorations, in search for a visual language, done by arts
students and their teachers.
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if we just look a bit closer to the relation between
specific policies of the nation states, or particular
parties regarding to the development of cyberspace over the
last ten years, we can see a remarkable influence of the
state on the media sector.
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Deregulation of media access has not resulted in actual
public access. Nor did it boost innovation.
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What is needed are new spaces for reflection and critique,
free zones where researchers of all kinds can work without
the pressure of sponsors and administrators, free from short
term commercial pressure.
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Let us overcome this universal protestantism and instead
concentrate on the architecture of these new media, now that
there is still something to decide.
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:18:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Geert Lovink
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
Subject: Fragments of Network Criticism
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