3.01.2004
comments; first wave
Speculative Media Theory:
or, Theory in Crisis. This must be the introduction. Essentially, we have discovered a new means of communication (did our ancestors struggle thusly when they invented or evolved writing? it's implied in p. 26, paragraph 2) and haven't acclimated ourselves to it yet. The air of confusion pervading this well-written piece embodies the essayist's struggles with the idea of "autonomous" media of p. 25, which is necessarily self-contained and defined, abeit surrrounded by other disciplines, and what I believe is a human need to define by dichotomy. The rejection of subjectivity for a nebulous mechanical objectivity is self-deluding. I defy a machine to theorize, and similarly defy a human to be a machine.
The Virtual Intellectual :
Perhaps the intellectual as public champion isn’t so démodé : Lovink interprets the internet as a potentially highly public place, where the old « intellectual »-elitist monopoly over criticism and interpretation is negated by a universality of accessability to media and to its publication. What else might a « virtual » intellectual (all implications intended) working with such procreative media be but a facilitator ?
Finally, a propos to the links: is art appreciation, when not wholly dependant upon an acadmic, critical heritage, itself a cult?
or, Theory in Crisis. This must be the introduction. Essentially, we have discovered a new means of communication (did our ancestors struggle thusly when they invented or evolved writing? it's implied in p. 26, paragraph 2) and haven't acclimated ourselves to it yet. The air of confusion pervading this well-written piece embodies the essayist's struggles with the idea of "autonomous" media of p. 25, which is necessarily self-contained and defined, abeit surrrounded by other disciplines, and what I believe is a human need to define by dichotomy. The rejection of subjectivity for a nebulous mechanical objectivity is self-deluding. I defy a machine to theorize, and similarly defy a human to be a machine.
The Virtual Intellectual :
Perhaps the intellectual as public champion isn’t so démodé : Lovink interprets the internet as a potentially highly public place, where the old « intellectual »-elitist monopoly over criticism and interpretation is negated by a universality of accessability to media and to its publication. What else might a « virtual » intellectual (all implications intended) working with such procreative media be but a facilitator ?
Finally, a propos to the links: is art appreciation, when not wholly dependant upon an acadmic, critical heritage, itself a cult?
