Incredible Machines 4

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• 00:00:30

  All right, well I haven't prepared anything because I intuited, and I think fairly correctly, that this conference would unfold very nicely as much through accident, error, glitch, and various forms of spontaneity as through Mo Salami's superhuman, very ambitious planning effort. So here we are. I also didn't prepare…

• 00:17:12

  Basically evolution of modern science started by undermining the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, this smooth flow of metaphorization from one domain to another in which basically you can create a conceptual tunnel vision that you can basically talk about the universe as it's just…

• 00:31:38

  Like a human shield. So it's like the art system sort of like to sort of both camouflage itself and kind of like make a victim of itself, sort of like puts the artist in the front. So to attack the art system, you have to either shoot the artist, or sort of like the situation in the world that you have to physically…

• 00:50:07

  And that means that, essentially, class can be decomposed. Now, the final question, of course, is what does this have to do with the mechanisation of knowledge production? Well, the loose hypothesis I would propose is that the increasing penetration of information technology into everyday life offers…

• 01:05:35

  I like to think of art as a thought form, whether it's material or immaterial. So one key question for me that arises from the very interesting discussion of platforms, that Ben Dick Singleton presented, was what kind of platform is art? And that's something that I'm not really feeling in the room yet. What kind…

• 01:22:34

  So, for me, the paradox that Mackenzie Wark talked about this morning, this paradox in which the improvements in our capacity to create information systems are matched, only to the fact that, in fact, we're not able to do that. And that's an interesting point, because I think that the fact that these systems are being…

• 01:38:25

  Finished. Thank you very much. So just to lay out the rest of this, Martha has some questions. I would like to ask from Dr Victor from WrestleMania from WrestleMania from WrestleMania from WrestleMania We got two in and then after Matteo we get you to clarify and then we get Christina and that's it. I'm so glad…

• 01:57:36

  In a few years with much better technology and less glitches. But actually I kind of like all the glitches and all that because it kind of like made a point and acted as sort of like a link between sort of like the universal in particular. Thanks again. Goodbye.