[-empyre-] Lichty: Theory and Media Art in 2014

[Brian Holmes]

I always wondered how to say the below and this is it! Thank you, Patrick.

On 05/18/2014 11:51 AM, Patrick Lichty wrote:
> In
> 1998, it was Benjamin (I say this arbitrarily), in 2013 it was Whitehead,
> And I wonder deeply whether the shifts from Poststructuralism to Non-Human
> Ontologies, or from epistemology to ontology for that matter, is a
> reflection of culture, or the resultant disconnect of sheer interest of a
> community who has, at the call of its finest, decided to follow as a path of
> least resistance or merely a desire for acceptance and to be part of "the
> conversation".

One does sometimes wonder what intellectual life would be like if 
theories were ways to get at existential issues and not the reverse. 
Since the turn to Non-Human Ontologies I lost interest in following. The 
previous theories of language, technology, capital and social class were 
so invigorating for those who wanted to do things with media. Perhaps 
the new ones will encourage some kind of ecological practice -- but 
media will not be able to do much about that, so I guess a good blah 
blah blah is what you have to look forward to! Alas. -- BH