Otolith Group - Parsons Visiting Artist Lecture

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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  Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music To live and work in London in 2011 is to be exposed to an experience of social, cultural, political, financial, educational, educational, educational, economic, public and aesthetic crisis that bears no resemblance to this specific…

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  Our coalition government is intent on restoring the system. Restoring the power of the markets that triggered this crisis in the first place. 2011, London. Between those that sense the possibility for constructing a new culture from the wreckage of discredited beliefs. And those that want to reconstruct old privileges…

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  It is this struggle against financial dictatorship that we must fight. It is this struggle against financial dictatorship that we must fight. It is these infernal alternatives that bind us to the logic of capitalist realism, to the obvious choice of having no choice except to choose between the lesser…

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  that the term belief is itself misleading. The logic of catalyst realism does not only reside in the heads of individuals, it is externalised in the institutional practices of workplaces, education, art worlds, the media and beyond. In his Discussions on Ideology, Louis Althusser cites Pascal's doctrine, Kneel down…

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  With everything we know about everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find everything we can find…

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  If the origin of the current crisis of market fundamentalism can be located in financial instruments of such complicated construction that even their users are said not to have understood exactly what they were and how they worked, then the implications for aesthetics, understood as that which makes visible, makes…

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  The ! In which algorithms are executable commands materialized in liquid crystals. Are sentient entities materializing the blood mineral of coal town. The financial system begins to appear. In all its monstrosity. November the 4th, evening, 1927. Eisenstein sits at his desk wondering how to invent images and sounds…

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  From these insecurities will emerge a new work that will bear little or no resemblance to the images or sounds assembled in this evening and yet which could not have become sensible without this articulation. Thank you.