culture

Esta espiritualidad que despliega 'LUX' pertenece a un ecosistema global que mezcla tradiciones como si fueran módulos intercambiables: versos sufíes, santas católicas, mística hebrea, rezos descontextualizados, lenguas diversas tratadas como materia sonora e instrumental. Un catálogo de exotismos canalizado para el consumo occidental, donde lo... See more

As banal AI images come to supersaturate our visual culture, we should look with more curiosity toward image-makers who explore the specific quirks of different models. Their experiments may not squarely look like art (nor like engineering, nor research), but it is precisely in this interstitial space where tinkering is likely to find the essence... See more

An art form that avoids becoming a cheap imitation of painting or photography, that emerges into something altogether new, will do so by leaning into what’s essential about AI.

But mass slop has nothing to do with art, just like photos to remember your parking space don’t implicate photographers, nor does a receipt degrade writing (and certainly has nothing to do with Proust). Next, they embody a conservative tendency in the history of art and technology to imagine sophisticated tools as compromising authorship. In... See more

The decisive factor is no longer winning or prevailing “on the ground,” but rather capturing global perception. What was called perception management in the 1980s is now being reconfigured as cognitive warfare , and attempt to control what is believed and what is considered possible to believe. The ultimate struggle lies in determining how the... See more

An essay such as this, then, cannot proceed without mentioning Jean Baudrillard and his exemplary The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). In this text he theorizes that war is fought, above all, on screens, because “representation replaces experience and war becomes a flow of administered images.” This includes the horrific videos of bombings and... See more

Ernest Bormann’s Symbolic Convergence Theory comes in handy here: groups consolidate identities through dramatic narratives that reinforce their cohesion. On social media, these narratives are set up as moral wars in which digital lynchings, micro-violence, or public humiliation serve an almost ritualistic function. They affirm belonging while at... See more

“If you want to create a monocultural event, start a war,” said Nick Susi in a recent essay. The Super Bowl, Trump vs any other politician, Drake vs Kendrick, The Night of the Year, what unifies global attention today is the spectacle of combat.