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to placard: letter on arts funding crisis, to demolish an idea

[-The following went to Spectre -] State arts funding does not have the interests of the artist or of art at its centre as its reason. It is rather a symbolic – political and economic and ethological – allowance that such things might emerge as artists and arts which if they do may

mainly sand

general statements about art suck even if they satisfy and other failed attempts or is it better to live to be a caricature of oneself or die a cliché? (RIP Amy Winehouse)

to placard: sufficient conditioning; a call to raise expectations of and from conditions considered sufficient

[-with minor alterations, the following was sent to the Listserv Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives-] Dear Un-Alike, I’m intrigued by the support here for decentralization as a condition for a desirable network. Decentralization is what the social graph aspires to, lighting up the dark

genetic principles: an iteration

to placard: letter & following to Spectre Listserv for media art and culture in Deep Europe

[-The following is the elsewhere of Deep Europe referred to here -] respectrespectrespectre… reading with interest the causes and claims, from Nederlands, to Brasil, Slovenia, England, cutting funding for the arts and culture, I would like humbly to submit another explanation, other, that is, than economic expediency, or ignorance and gross

to placard: letter to Listserv of the Institute for Distributed Creativity

Dear Institute, It is sad that the Arts and Humanities have not survived their own critique, a revisionism with which scholars, teachers and students – following the ‘discipline’ – have been engaged for at least the last fifty years. But it is no surprise. Surprising is how complicity – at the level both