Aleksei Ivachkin
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Aleksei Ivachkin
Symbolic convergence theory - Wikipedia
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Online radicalization is the result of three key factors:
Most people in the United States are downwardly mobile and life expectancy is steadily declining. These material factors help drive individuals out onto the internet in search of new narratives to explain the world around them. The... See more
- Economic Precarity — Americans are working harder for less.
Most people in the United States are downwardly mobile and life expectancy is steadily declining. These material factors help drive individuals out onto the internet in search of new narratives to explain the world around them. The... See more
Josh's Theory of Radicalization
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
"DeLuLUX"
“The media promotes the war, and the war promotes the media. [...] It allows us to turn the world and the violence of the world into a consumable substance. So, war or promotion?”
Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
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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
Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfond
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.
Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfond
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