Notes on Rietveld Conference

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Blue Marble

Anselm Franke

  • 'Blue Marble' image made possible by Cold War technologies, become a icon of global unity adopted by the counterculture.
  • Anthroposcene : a new geological epoch

: uncertainty about the agenda of the anthroposcene

  • Ecology as an unstable term / artificial contruction / reconfigures itself according to its constituent parts
  • Blue Marble replaced the Mushroom Cloud as the Cold War global icon
  • Mushroom Cloud : icon of technological superiority

: scientific power : nuclear holocaust

Diederich Diederichsen

  • group politics of Jefferson Airplane : collective, "no leader"
  • Godard film
  • "Private property is a target for your enemy, and your enemy is us"
  • The Blues album compilation - politics of blank music, white musicians
  • Music for TelStar satellite, launched in 1962 [joe meek???]


Erich Horl

  • Guatarri : post-media, mass media in the information age
  • ecologisation : new ecological sense of media and processuality
  • "machine should disappear and inhabit the surroundings/environment"
  • Mark Hanson : the concept of the technological object has become obsolete [??]

: object has made way for processes [ref Jack Burnham, object oriented to systems oriented culture]

  • Networks have become ecological - a political development, a centerpiece of a contemporary critical theory
  • Catherine Hayles - redefinition of cognition, transformation to a new advanced technological environmentalism
  • Jussi Parika : viral media ecologie
  • telo-technic-scientific machine-Derrida: uprooting

Discussion

  • modulations of control/power
  • anti-cartesian conspiracy!?! 'control' does not occupy a delineated space......
  • where does the dismantling of these dichotomies/boundaires lead to?

=>important to focus on where it came from, rather than speculate where it can lead to =>Plato: difference between inside/outside was key

  • what is the modern echo of the counterculture??

=>ginsberg / counterculture - attempts to levitate the pentagon.

  • cartography - going away from the strategy of conceptual highways / cutting through the world.
  • "conceptual mapping"
  • organic / mechanic / cybernetic state of nature
  • James Benning - Unabomber film
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