Hey everyone as of today I'm #migrating to @rra it was very nice to hang out here and inspiring enough to help set up yet another instance over at post.lurk.org. Its an instance for #discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media #art, net and computational #culture, and things like that.
I'll keep this account dormant for lurking purposes. If I'm following you you probably got a follow request from the new account!
Tomorrow a #screening in #varia in #Rotterdam: 21st century calling on the past #imaginaries of the #future.
Once we were all promised a better tomorrow with robots, atomic powered cars and inflatable plastic homes. After the second world war the promises of technology made it seem like everything was possible. However, it seems like much of this optimism might have been a bit premature. Where is the dream of tomorrow now? Do we still dare to dream of the future?
βToday at Facebook [art] works to create the illusion that the public sphere and the firm are one and the same. It is precisely this illusion on which surveillance capitalism depends.β β Fred Turner
http://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-Art-at-Facebook-Poetics-Preprint.pdf
This is spot on and an engrossing read on how surveillance capitalism works to legitimise itself via its aesthetics.
Via @charlyblack