Notes on Rietveld Conference

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