[...]f our time, rests on an ="trms">apparatus of very powerful computers and ="trms">communication vectors, which overcome the “friction”, as ="ppl">Paul ="ppl">Edwards calls it, between ="trms">data and ="trms">communication. it brings together global ="trms">data ="trms">according to global standards, mathematical models of physics of climate drawn from fluid dynamics, and massive computational power. the model and ="trms">data coproduce each other in a way, as the ="trms">data sets are all partial, and many ="trms">data points have to be ="trms">interpolated to make the models work. and then all of that has to be mediated back to human awareness via tables, graphs, computer simulations, and so forth.
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(="ppl">Irmgard ="ppl">Emmelhainz)
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(="trms">anthropo="trms">cene) change in the conditions of visuality
transformation of the ="trms">world into images
="trms">phenomenological ='lgc'>+ ="trms">epistemological consequences
images participate now in the forming of ="trms">worlds, they have also become forms of thought
the optical mind
the radical change in the conditions of visuality has brought about a new subject ="trms">position or point of view, announce by the ="trms">trajectories of='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. antihumanism (between impressionism and cubism)
="lstsrd">2. posthumanism (between cubism and experimental film)
="lstsrd">3. non-grounded form of vision (from experimental film to digital media)
this regime of visuality implies='lgc'>: automatization, tautological vision, and signs leading to other signs
resulted to ='lgc'>=> the proliferation of images also implying the cancellation of vision
“vision cancelled”
linearity of the Renaissance perspective plan created the illusion of a view to the outside ="trms">world, analogous to a window.
cubism='lgc'>: showing a perpetual ="trms">present in a parallel temporality.
perspectival multiplicity became embedded in the picture plane.
invented a discontinuous space, making identity and ="trms">difference relative (="trms">questioning the classical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics), by subverting the ="trms">relations between subject and object.
does my Kinect pictural model employs the architectural space='qstn'>? is camera architectural='qstn'>?
in experimental film, duration became a key component of ="trms">aesthetic experience, analogous to human consciousness, a prosthetic vision
identity and ="trms">difference, rejection of a ="trms">priori space
how to release the subject from human coordinates='qstn'>? what are references to human coordinates='qstn'>? screen's rectangular frame='qstn'>?
the machine (optical perception) delivers a posthuman, prosthetic enhancement of vision, which announces, first the incipient (initial) normalization of perception as augmented reality and ="trms">data visualization
displacement of the subjective center of operations
epitomize
subvert
fragmentation brought by mechanization, has an alienating character
its impossibility to give back an image or serve a reflective mirror
it is in="trms">different to “me”
the exhaustive visualization and documentation of ="trms">wildlife is effectively concealing its ongoing extinction (one of the reasons i am not using the zeiss-lens-camera recordings)
(for Susan Sontag) taking photographs ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] is a way of certifying experience, also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photographic, by converting experience to a souvenir. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the very activity of taking pictures ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] assuages (erleichtern) general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated (worsened) by ="trms">travel.
cognitive activity
giving form to experience, also transforming things into signs, welding image and discourse
the contemporary experience is also made of sharing/tweeting/liking images
the contemporary political economy='lgc'>: ="trms">communicative capitalism derives surplus value from the volume and velocity of sings and ="trms">data circulating in the infosphere.
proliferation of cognitive signs is another feature of ="trms">communicative capitalism, submitting the mind to an ever-increasing pace of perceptual stimuli
(for Berardi) seeing means accelerating perception in the fields of everyday experience, accelerated tautological vision derived from constant passive observation. this is another of ="trms">communicative capitalism's form of governance, as this kind of vision generates ="trms">techno-="trms">linguistic automatisms by carrying information without meaning
is Kinect image-compilation a creature of infosphere='qstn'>? (boring ="trms">question='qstn'>?)
normalization of groundless seeing (exemplified in google earth)
“picture does not make an image” (Serge Daney, before and after image)
image against vision
life persists irrationality, not given form by ="trms">imagination, ceasing to cohere into a higher truth. (Fox, cold ="trms">world)
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(="ppl">Ada ="ppl">Smailbegovic)
="trms">nature of things (2013, ="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Elisa)
related to temporalities and velocities (plant politics of movement)
the video registers ="trms">different rhythms and textures of change in the event of weather
="trms">methodological impulse to draw on descriptive practices of ="trms">natural ="trms">history
attuning to p="trms">articulate ="trms">differences that ="trms">compose change
the temporal dimension of human “umwelt” is tuned into a limited set of rhythms and durations. therefore many of the temporalities that are relevant for developing a politics of time (such as longe duration of geological time) may not be directly available to human sensorium.
not just something that it is difficult to sense, but temporality as a compound entity of other variables. (temperature, etc.)
binding times together
an alternative perspective on (="trms">anthropo="trms">cene) temporality involves developing a ="trms">poetics of description as a mode of ="trms">affective and ="trms">aesthetic amplification
='lgc'>=> developing an experimental ="trms">poetics of ="trms">technology as a mode of ="trms">aesthetic amplification towards a less perspectival visuality ='lgc'>-- the ="trms">writing tends to operate in a more tentacular mode of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sweating on every negative space
='lgc'>+='lgc'>+='lgc'>+ sweating again was crucial in our sensorial (and therefore cognitive) ="trms">relation when we were in Amazon. Kinect and sweating both propose modes of perception other than perspectival shadow casting ="trms">system of vision.
(organic or inorganic/="trms">technological='qstn'>?) processes that constitute the planet/plant
='lgc'>=> intimacy with the organic/inorganic/="trms">technological processes that constitute the planet
(='mywrk'>my work is to create or find out) ="trms">poetics and the ="trms">methodologies that register the bite and indexes its significance
(='lgc'>+ bite of the critter on my skins)
(="ppl">Chakrabarty in The climate of ="trms">history='lgc'>:) “man's environment did change but changed so slowly as to make the ="trms">history of man's ="trms">relation to his environment almost timeless and thus not a subject of ="trms">historiography at all”
the collapse of this age-old humanist distinction between ="trms">natural ="trms">history and human ="trms">history
plant ="trms">writing
="trms">formulate ="trms">transitional ="trms">categories that would be ="trms">responsive to ="trms">differentiated modes of activity attuned to the difficulties of depicting ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena that are continuously in flux.
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader of the meteorological registers
envision the temporal flux
the shifting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (of the Kinect building generics)
(Kinect image) as architectural form ="trms">composed of ="trms">different (="trms">transitional) ="trms">materially instantiated temporalities
trans="trms">position of qualities
within grammatical and ="trms">figurative textures (of ="trms">poetic)
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between the ="trms">material and the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical
modes of ="trms">materiality
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(W.A.G.E. working artists and greater economy)
for artists who don't have secondary jobs, their mobility='lgc'>--despite being under="trms">written in many cases by class privilege='lgc'>--is forced. they are wired-up, ="trms">networked carriers of ="trms">social and cultural capital set in perpetual motion, transforming cities in their passage through them on the art circuit='lgc'>--sophisticated nomadic clans who ="trms">travel to survive.
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="trms">nature of things (2013, ="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Elisa)
places marked with zones of limited habitation='lgc'>--you can't live there, you are a visitor
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a place that is both wasteland and ="trms">wilderness at the same time
wasteland tourism (museum in chernobyl)
="lstsrd">1. the christian tradition='lgc'>: it was our ="trms">obligation to use up the earth before the apocalypse
="lstsrd">2. the romantic view='lgc'>: we humans are the servants of the land, we are its eyes, we are its expression
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