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If sound is power, then listening seems like submission
We seem thoroughly persuaded that looking is active while listening is passive. So looking is always liable to become a violating, objectifying and diminishing action, while listening is thought of not...
View ArticleNoise is a direct call to action
“‘Le bruit,’ noise with imitative effects, was introduced into art (in this connection we can hardly speak of individual arts, music or literature) by Marinetti, who used a chorus of typewriters,...
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Dark Sound | Mikel R. Nieto
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Review of Talugung / _blank – ‘Split’ at Decoder Magazine
“…the result feels like a somewhat different sort of meditation. The role of the observer is active, audio filters and equalizers working as a metaphor for the imaginative filters of the listener’s...
View ArticleTo look this simple
“It takes a lot of money to look this simple.” The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, Kyle Chayka.
View ArticleThe aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice
“…we might be able to hold the iPhone in our hands, but we should also be aware that the network of its consequences is vast: server farms absorbing massive amounts of electricity, Chinese factories...
View ArticleSimplistic, archaic, and destructive
“Most ideas of history are simplistic, archaic, and destructive.” Complaints: Part I (1969), Donald Judd.
View ArticleThe more words, the less true a text feels
“Writing about emptiness is difficult because words document presence. As soon as you point to something in writing, it’s there, even if what you point to is empty floor. Language often seems like so...
View ArticleEthics and aesthetics
“Ethics and æsthetics are one.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Pero había que vivir de algo
«Rechazaban la mercantilización del arte: “El espíritu y el dinero son dos polos antagónicos. Si vendes ideas espirituales por dinero, vendes el espítiru al dinero y pierdes el espíritu”, proclamó...
View ArticleObeying the clock
“In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to wake up, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleMindless rituals
“…software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless ‘rituals’ whose steps are ‘encoded in the logic of web pages.’” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleThose that do not align with the canon
“Glitched bodies—those that do not align with the canon of white cisgender heteronormativity—pose a threat to social order. Range-full and vast, they cannot be programmed.” Glitch Feminism, Legacy...
View ArticleWhen gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield
“When gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield. When you get rid of the binary, gender becomes a playground.” Gender Is a Playground, Kate Bornstein’s Interview, Zackary Drucker.
View ArticleNostalgia has no cure
“Whereas homesickness might be alleviated by returning home, nostalgia has no cure simply because one is typically nostalgic for a time other than the present. Until the invention of time reversal,...
View ArticleLife is work
“In our post-Fordist society, there is little demarcation between life and work. Life is work.” The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner.
View ArticleGender is a scaled economy
“Gender is a scaled economy: it is a mode of regulation, management, and control. … We have the right to deny our use and, through this, close the wounds created by a world fed on binary rhetoric.”...
View ArticleTo rob ourselves
“Every time we elect to have the form autofill the next time around, we participate in an act of naming, the process of identifying ourselves within highly networked social and cultural algorithms. We...
View ArticleThe mind struggles to regain its composure
“What is terrible – or sublime – for Kant, in his ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ of 1790, is formlessness. Beauty, so say the Kantian aestheticians, has form. Its objects have definable ‘boundaries’, while...
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