In the past few days, I've been obsessing with some works by a portuguese artist named Silvestre Pestana. He is still alive and still a visionary, but I was really curious about the digital art pieces he did in the 80s, aptly called 'Computer Poetry' (...) he did for ZX Spectrum
I really want to change the way I work, research based projects are not for me anymore not sure who they are for really apart from being helpful towards a flattening or an absolute quantification of practice. Often it’s a very thin veneer of intellectualism that covers awful art
Cemal Kafadar's much awaited work on Ottoman vampires (or, at least, part of it; he still promises a book-length study) is out -- and, guess what, in open access!
https://t.co/SRZVCVZ582
WTF is dinocore? My longread on @dazed unpacks the trend, from mystic fiction to cyberfeminism to ecology and Placebo’s Brian Molko. I explain how this links to post-human aesthetics and James Bridle’s idea of The New Dark Age https://t.co/gxLody86uv
@Logo_Daedalus I was just reading this essay by Henry Flynt which is one of the first known appearances of the term "involuntary celibacy", back in the early 1960s, and he articulates similar thoughts, where the involuntary celibate in the vanguard of the coming AI.
DOCUMENT: Founded on Nothing. An interview with Quentin Meillassoux about the nature of his speculative materialism, its relation to other figures in the history of philosophy, and its practical and ethical consequences.
https://t.co/YiSkMWA74e
@ChrisShehanArt If you'd allow a manga page, consider this page. For very little context, this is how the mangaka lets you know how much the figure in the back should horrify you
speaking of Films Div & fantasy.. I've learned not to use the word 'mindfuck' too often wrt this stuff, try to save it for Emergency-era children's films, but! this is some straight-up, fizzle-fry, future-shock, sarkari mindfuck:
"Space and India" (1970)
https://t.co/jhcWMaPMmN