Re: Forward from Ben Bogart Re: [-empyre-] technology as material

[saul ostrow <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>]

Modernism is an extension of the cultural body (practice is human)
Post-modernism is  the standardization of modernist knowledge
(technology is
a concept)
Modernism is a  subject  (technology is standardization)
> >
Modernism is  human / not human
Modernism is a  source/ not source
Modernism is control/ not control
> >
Post-Modernism is source/ not source
Post-Modernism is control/ not control
Post-Modernism is  technology/  not  technology
> >
The human is Post-Modernism/ not Post-Modernism
Post-Modernism is control/ not control
Technology is Post-Modernism / not Post-Modernism



Christina McPhee wrote:
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> From: "B. Bogart" <ben@ekran.org>
> Date: March 6, 2006 8:31:22 AM PST
> To: sostrow@gate.cia.edu, soft_skinned_space
> <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Cc: soft_skinned_space <empyre@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] technology as material

> 
> So is the "Concept" the remnants of Modernity, replaced by the
> "Technology" of the postmodern? Or is the "Concept" simply a method of
> sorting those artists that *do* from those that "create" and leave the
> implementation to others?
> 
> B. Bogart
> www.ekran.org/ben