savant inoeuvrable When you start working, everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas—all are there. But as you continue, they start leaving one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave. – John Cage, cited here
deeper and deeper into the void – a black box containing a volume large enough that the little lights from people’s cellphones are useless to define it
Excommunication a book by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker and McKenzie Wark, in review “where the idea of excommunication may be felt most immediately is in tapping into the simmering desire, for those who have such a choice, to disconnect from the frenetic energies of hypermediation, and to find opportunities of contemplation and reimagination in the spaces of communicative exclusion.” Excommunication “provides a model
STAND WITH STUDENTS AGAINST THE CORPORATISATION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION but not, apparently, against the corporatisation of the interweb: https://www.facebook.com/McSkoolNZ