[-empyre-] The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Machines

[Jon Lebkowsky]

That one departs theory; thanks, Brad.

We have such a mess via the global pulsating/throbbing/blasting Internet, I
thought the new aesthetic talk was an attempt, however chaotic, to derive a
classification scheme that's as broad a mess as anything. NA could be any
collection of bits, framed as something to be perceived as aesthetic
object. I thought it was helpful.

But it's just a label, after all, and the map is never the territory. Maybe
we could think past it.

~ Jon L.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:27 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:

>
> (remote Fiji WAYA/YASAWAS islands:)
>
> Island 8.0 is now available online!
> ====================================
> http://bbrace.net/islands/island8/island8.html
> http://bradbrace.net/islands/island8/island8.html
>
> Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media
> pdf-ebooks/field-recordings -- a
> pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters. An
> intensive
> examination of small islands and their paradigmatic solutions to
> globalism...
> Ethnographically a shared world of historical experience -- not the
> romanticized and
> divided universe of them and us.
>
>
> Your feudal-world is based on mutual relief at your common corruption.
> Maybe some
> cultures are based on even worse. But that wouldn't change the bad faith
> of it and as
> years go by, you wake at night in terror of your whole life being an act
> of bad faith,
> where everything is self-interest and nothing more, where every human
> interaction is
> driven by a silent, even subconscious calculation of some ulterior motive,
> to the point
> that a sea of bad faith has taken over your whole life, there's no small
> island left
> from which you can even try to build a bridge of good faith, because even
> that effort
> becomes suspect, even good faith is nothing but self-interested, even
> altruism is
> nothing but solipsistic, even your professed agonizing right here right
> now is nothing
> but a gesture, made to the conscience in order to assure it that it exists.
>
> http://bradbrace.net/id.html
> http://bbrace.net/id.html
>
> Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize
> Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand
> Island 3.0 is Lamu, Kenya
> Island 4.0 is Narikel Jingira, Bangladesh
> Island 5.0 is Isla Mais, Nicaragua
> Island 6.0 are The Grenadines, West Indies
> Island 7.0 is Hateruma (Yaeyama), Japan
> Island 8.0 is Waya (Yasawa), Fiji
>
> Global Islands Project:
>
> Island 8.0 -> http://bbrace.net/islands/island8/island8.html
> or http://bradbrace.net/islands/island8/island8.html
> -- over 1500 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 750mb -- (acrobat 6)
>
> ***
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_5.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_6.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_7.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_8.0
>
>
> ***
> Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a
> pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters...
>
> Vientos del pueblo me llevan
> Vientos del pueblo me arrastran
> Me eparcen mi corazon
> Ye me aventan la garganta
>
> http://www.bbrace.net/id.html
> http://bradbrace.net/id.html
>
> bbs: brad brace sound
> http://69.64.229.114:8000
> http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.html
>
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> http://bradbrace.net/webgallerywc/wc.html
>
> Eroticized Japanese/Malaysian Snack Foods:
> http://bradbrace.net/greenscreen.html
>
> Additional GIP texts/blog:
> http://bbrace.net/wordpress/
> http://bradbrace.net/wordpress/
>
> 12 mailing list:
>
> You cannot politically defy the institutions when all you really wanted
> was to be clasped to their bosoms and hope in time to be cherished under
> the very framework of oppressive values you are thinking of overcoming.
> That would be co-optation, revolution only in the sense of a circulation
> of elites rather than the extirpation of the very impulses of elitism.
>
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