passing the threshold of the middle class: capitalism’s unhaltable rise and culture’s unstoppable fall
culture now reaches lower and higher than ever before. Academic critical effort is continually levelled at annexing more and more of what was previously low culture, and klo culture, reaching lower and lower to capitalise at higher and higher societal echelons. In this sense it mirrors, or is instigated in
are you sitting on a goldmine 2013:12:29 14:58:10 – 2014:01:13 11:27:10 survey mark and the invention of twerking
Excerpts – the first, fractal time as evinced in the exhibition, Time and Motion, according to a review thereof; the second, Maria Vargas Llosa refuting the idea that poverty is anything other than the choice of those poor countries and something produced
Time and Motion focuses primarily on a particular demographic of labourer (generally the global information worker), and paints the picture of a tertiary lifestyle which involves multitasking without control over a narrative of time use, and habitual fractured thinking – where non-stop interactivity (a digital version of Taylorist motion) is crack
surface readings 2013:12:05 10:49:11 – 2013:12:21 11:56:13 and a happy new year
The Hobbit: The Failure of Smaug and The Desolation of Commercial Entertainment
Perhaps art would add something to the experience. And in the addition, which itself might be obscure, there would be a clear if indistinct feeling of relief – a purely human quality consequent on the addition of a wholly inhuman quantity. The experience itself in turn might be neutral or it