Tài liệu NEW AESTHETIC, NEW ANXIETIES pptx

[...]... job and a totally new personality every ten years" (McLuhan 2002: 114-115) 'New' is both trendy and trending, 'new' is youthful, 'new' surprises us, 'new' is the varnish elaborately used to shine up that what is already there, what has been lying around in the bottom of the drawer collecting dust and what no one paid attention to until it becomes the latest 'new' thing Perhaps 'new' is to modes of... discussion, only tangential to this New Aesthetic, New Anxieties project, and therefore, perhaps, a topic for another time If the New Aesthetic hit the blogosphere as a shareable concept or theory object, it took some time for female responders to point out that the zeitgeist was the investments of “a whole lot of men doing the looking, talking, and writing about the New Aesthetic” (Aim 2012a) While women... ask what the New Aesthetic might tell us about this juncture in which find ourselves, as curators, critics, artists theorists and creative workers We especially want to explore the discomfort and challenges of the New Aesthetic for a number of commentators working in proximity to 'new media aesthetics.' Somehow the New Aesthetic as a point of conversation seemed to generate strong boundary anxieties at... the newest tech gadget, dress ourselves in the latest fashion, enjoy the freshest foraged ingredients for the new thing in molecular dining experiences, and continuously and persistently come up with new exciting ideas to market ourselves and our jobs As communications guru Marshall McLuhan said in one of his numerous probes, "At the very high speed of living, everybody needs a new career and a new. .. discourse on the new aesthetic that followed his essay, which tended to follow the 'heroic' narrative If the new aesthetic is 'collectively intelligent', then Sterling's essay 19 worked to propane-fuel this intellectual discourse The new aesthetic inevitably raised questions around its novelty, historicity, ontological basis, gender bias, politics Here, a central concern was the 'new' in the new aesthetic... accounts, including from new media practitioners themselves? The question of how and why the New Aesthetic became emblematic of a particular kind of sensibility, one arguably characteristic of a disruptive network culture, is the subject of this book Approaching this topic, we want to think through the anxieties, misunderstandings, arguments, bruised egos and skirmishes the New Aesthetic generated We... contribution, 'The Banality of the New Aesthetic', Jackson stated explicitly: "memes require instant satisfaction Art requires depth" (2012) More radical enthusiasm about the New Aesthetic came from Greg Borenstein, who suggested that when viewed through Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), the New Aesthetic is a “visible eruption of the mutual empathy between us and a class of new objects that are native to... computationality and periodisation of neoliberal governmentality This is an attempt to expand our perspective on what the New Aesthetic might mean, and also consider how media art can reimagine itself by asking some difficult new questions WHAT WAS THE NEW AESTHETIC? Defining the New Aesthetic is necessarily problematic It's a vibe, an attitude, a feeling, a sensibility Posted to the blog for The Really... approach a New Aesthetic of the future, which sounds more portentous than I mean What I mean is that we’ve got frustrated with the NASA extropianism space-future, the failure of jetpacks, and we need to see the technologies we actually have with a new wonder Consider this a moodboard for unknown products (Some of these things might have appeared here, or nearby, before They are not necessarily new new, but... There is no simple solution, only problems and questions, to which we now turn to examine 17 4 NEW ANXIETIES The # tumblresque is not John Berger's Ways of Seeing but sprays of seeing (Wark 2012) What is it about the New Aesthetic that makes you so damn uneasy? There’s a deeply intriguing quality about the New Aesthetic that is more remarkable than any of its merits: it cannot be ignored Since Bruce . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" NEW AESTHETIC NEW ANXIETIES Published : 2012-06-22 License : GPL TABLE OF CONTENTS New Aesthetic New Anxieties 1 Aesthetic Turns. Found 35 Irruptions 8 The New Aesthetic as Representation 41 9 What are the Conditions of Possibility for the New Aesthetic? 44 10 The New Aesthetic as Mediation