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"Where can contemporary art go under global war and fascism?"--
In the age of the reproducability of almost everything physical, human presence is one of the few things that cannot be multiplied indefinitely, an asset with some inbuilt scarcity.
— Duty free art by Hito Steyerl (Page 23)
Excerpt from an excellent chapter on proxies and how we are living in 'junktime'.
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the …
Even technology makes the mistake of considering tools in isolation: tools exist only in relation to the inteminglings they make possible or that makes them possible. The stirrup entails a new man-horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseperable from symbioses or amalgamations defining a Nature-Society machinic assemblage.
— A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (Capitalism and Schizophrenia, #2) (Page 105)
@cblgh super exciting ^_^ I haven't read any sci-fi in a good long while so this should be a treat.
Great to see that you're reading this! I think I remember Monica appearing as a guest on Erik's Expanding Mind podcast. I've been meaning to read the book but had all but forgotten about it; will make a note.
