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Bifo: After the Future

http://www.artandeducation.net/classroom/video/66057/bifo-after-the-future

#Vimeo #bifo #francoberardi #garygenosko #infoscape #afterthefuture #gregelmer #technoculturelab #akpress

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“Emmanuel Todd montre que les structures familiales traditionnelles, même après leur disparition du fait de l'urbanisation, peuvent servir de modèle aux relations politiques.”

https://www.herodote.net/Emmanuel_Todd_pour_tous-synthese-2000.php

#family #structure

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the virtual as the real, nations as brands, people as data, culture as capital, wellness as politics, happiness as GDP

DIS quoted by http://www.flashartonline.com/2016/06/the-present-in-drag-9th-berlin-biennale/

#paradox

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We are the INTERMORPHS—forms in-between, a species undergoing transition, shapeless, soulless, prefabricated templates of autogenerated information, applications of self, user-friendly installations. We have all signed the “terms of use” agreement without ever having read the fine print. We find ourselves relocated to rigorously planned leisure communities, psychic spaces oscillating between dissociation, depression, and stimulation, where we voluntarily serve as indentured laborers in the imagination industry.

We are the INTERMORPHS: Video program by Ashkan Sepahvand : http://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/106588/we-are-the-intermorphs-video-program-by-ashkan-sepahvand

#human

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Tiqqun, excerpt from Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl — “The Young Girl as War-Machine”

“The Young Girl is, in this sense, also the hipster, the bro, the jock, the junkie, the star, the queen, or any other subjectified incorporation of privilege and agency that has been prefabricated through mechanisms of marketing, control, and design within the audiovisual marketplace of information-identity exchange. “She” is a living simulation.”

http://www.artandeducation.net/classroom/video/66058/tiqqun-excerpt-from-preliminary-materials-for-a-theory-of-the-young-girl-the-young-girl-as-war-machine

#visual culture #fiction

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En dépit du constat que la chimie et la physique des corps humains ne sont pas distinctes de celles des corps animaux et végétaux, voire de celles des artefacts, le fait que les humains parlent, s’imposent des règles, inventent des techniques, suffit pour nous les Modernes à en faire une classe d’êtres à part. Ailleurs dans le Monde, là où d’autres ontologies se sont développées, une telle dissociation n’a guère de sens et l’on tendra au contraire à traiter les non-humains comme des humains du fait des qualités sociales ou psychiques qu’on leur prête.

Philippe Descola: LA FABRIQUE DES IMAGES : VISIONS DU MONDE ET FORMES DE LA REPRÉSENTATION. Somogy, 2010.

#worldview #human #non human

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Gucci Fall Winter 2017 film campaign, Director: Glen Luchford, Art Director: Christopher Simmonds, Courtesy Gucci

“Under Michele’s direction, Gucci transcends the diktats of recorded time, geography, ethnic culture, class and gender to produce a mannered, hyper-aware universal potpourri of references that has gone from strength to strength over his fifteen collections. In one season he might resample the opulence of renaissance brocade and prim Victoriana lace with the Californian optimism of 70s aviators and flares before throwing on scrambled-Anglo tweed, ambient Chinoiserie, glam-rock sparkle and spiked spaghetti western-tooled leather for good measure. No wonder journalist Tim Blanks called Kering’s chrononaut starboy the “master of eternity” – trying to decode the new aesthetic is like trying to operate a time machine when you’re high as shit. It’s bracing epoch drag fusion, a post-truth uniform for life lived under anything-goes neoliberal hyperreality.“ ELLA PLEVIN: Welcome to the Gucciverse, Spike Art Quarterly #53 https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/en/articles/fashion-1

#fashion

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By recognizing the plural ‘climates’ that humans have constructed and instrumentalized for various ends, they show us that the relationships between people and the built and natural environments are only limited by our imaginations.

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016, p.10

#climate #climate change