Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption - Journal #46
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Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption - Journal #46
Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
This is why Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of capitalism is so important: Ambivalence is at the heart of it.