commit b9214472395fe8c04162b3a380018dc863429ad6
parent e7fd8d5a529a746280734aeba761ce9264bf2b21
Author: Brendan Howell <brendan@howell-ersatz.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 13:47:08 +0100
Merge branch 'master' of bleu255.com:/var/www/git.bleu255.com/repos/pmc-aesthetics-pres
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ class: inverted, middle, center
- in that sense retrocomputers and retroaesthethics are essentially restorative nostalgia in the way they allow a connection with a past self through objects of mass consumption
- they favour the cult of simpler times, the good old days where things were simpler
- this is obviously a trap that through the well meaning intention of creating a safe-space for emulating a lost youth, fosters instead deep conservative thinking, fetichises a past that never was
-- if anything it prevents the problematisation of an already defective computational culture back then, and open the doors to imagined communities
+- if anything it prevents the problematisation of an already defective computational culture back then.
---
class: inverted, middle, center
@@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ class: inverted, middle, center
???
- when Jamaican studios started to experiment in the 70s with obsolete and abandonned US audio equipment like spring reverbs, they were not nostalgic about 60s surf music, instead it became a core component of new musical genre: dub music.
- pmc sees computational devices like as many different instruments waiting to be turned upside down and rediscovered
-- pmc sees the end of a computer product lifecycle as a moment of celebration, a moment where its socioeconomic context can be reclaimed as opposed to be put behind a glass and condemned to run the same old code forever
-- so if pmc is nostalgic then it relates more to reflective nostalgia
- but most importantly it belongs to a wider range of post-digital aesthetics
---
@@ -558,12 +556,10 @@ class: inverted, middle, center
# BEYOND POSTURES OF NOVELTY
???
-- the 90s idea of "digitality" (as advocated by nicholas negroponte etc) is exemplary of all the problems presented so far (maximalism, virtualism, narrow cultural basis, neophilia)
-- post-digital aesthetics however bring to light the end of such new media cult
-- more specifically the combinatorial and generatively conflictual potential of combining new + old media POV
-- pmc aesthetics thefore defies the "nostalgia explanation"
-- USEFUL REF FOR PAPER: Florian Cramer has some examples of e.g. young artists that like media older than themselves
-- pmc tries to exist outside of hype cycles and favour an ongoing practice itself moving in an ever changing landscape of new and old media and tech
+- the 90s meme of "digitality" is exemplary of all the problems presented so far (maximalism, virtualism, narrow cultural basis, neophilia)
+- however the more recent concept of post-digital aesthetics brings to light the end of such new media cult
+- more specifically in its articulation of the potential to combine new + old media POV
+- as a result permacomputing tries to exist outside of hype cycles and favour an ongoing practice itself moving in an ever changing landscape of new and old media and tech
---
class: inverted, middle, center
@@ -571,22 +567,21 @@ class: inverted, middle, center
???
- so in a sense pmc has a different connection to temporality
-- it aims at expanding the short time scale address the short timespans and neophilia with approaches that embrace long traditions, historical situatedness and "slowness"
- it values slowness and non-flashiness as an antithesis to the usual short-attention-span user experiences
-- it is not nostalgic to wish for an alternative temporalities
-- departing from the asynchronous but always connected life
-- a connected life and the mediation of our social interactions that deeply affects our natural rhythms and flows
+- it departs from the asynchronous but always connected life and the mediation of our social interactions that deeply affects our natural rhythms and flows
---
class: inverted, middle, center
# SAVOIR VIVRE OVER SAVOIR FAIRE
???
-- source of anxiety, mental health issues
-- an exhaustion of everything: energies, natural resources, ecosystems, life here and elsewhere, at our own cost and the cost of others who did not ask for it
-- pmc works hope to be a step outside the factory universe
-- an alternative contemporary concept of synchrony and speed, that allow for another pace of life and daily / seasonal / more local connections and flows
-- it's not nostalgia, it's a flag that signposts social cultural regressions
+- ultimately permacomputing tries to resist the exhaustion of everything
+ - energies
+ - natural resources
+ - ecosystems
+ - life here and elsewhere
+- an exhaustion at our own cost and the cost of others who did not ask anything to start with
+- so no, it's not nostalgia, it's a flag that signposts social cultural regressions
---
class: inverted, middle, center
