Re: Forward from Christiane Paul RE: [-empyre-] modern/conceptul dialectic -> N state?

[Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is>]

On 8.3.2006, at 11:15, Christina McPhee wrote:
> Warren Sack has written a very interesting article on the  
> aesthetics of information visualization in which he references  
> Benjamin Buchloh who described this teleology of conceptual art as  
> an "aesthetic of administration." Sack suggests that we can  
> understand contemporary database-based (databased?) work in a  
> similar way because metaphorically and literally, computers are an  
> outgrowth of bureaucracy:

Perhaps this isn't really relevant to the discussion but just for  
clarity, no, we can't used 'databased' instead of 'database-based'  
because work based on data doesn't necessarily have anything to do  
with databases. The significance of the database is not the data but  
the organization/categorization/relation of the data.

On another note, someone asked, "What's the topic". Early off in the  
discussion, I posted a message that appears to have gone largely  
unseen. The only reply to it was from Lucio. There I did in fact ask  
what the question "Is Modernity our Antiquity" is. It's available in  
the archives at https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006- 
March/msg00012.html

Pall Thayer
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