art criticism: puking after the online circlejerk
Relying on plain stupidity is going to end up in a bag of pukeWith good written prompts there’s a way, perhaps, I hope, of pushing kitsch so far that it becomes something strange and alluring, even moving.Reading art criticism can make a person feel nauseous, fatigued, and generally unwell. Eye strain and headaches are common. Cybersickness symptoms could be dangerous. For instance, symptoms like severe headache, eye strain or dizziness could affect your coordination and attention. Menninghau...
art criticism: puking after the online circlejerk
Relying on plain stupidity is going to end up in a bag of pukeWith good written prompts there’s a way, perhaps, I hope, of pushing kitsch so far that it becomes something strange and alluring, even moving.Reading art criticism can make a person feel nauseous, fatigued, and generally unwell. Eye strain and headaches are common. Cybersickness symptoms could be dangerous. For instance, symptoms like severe headache, eye strain or dizziness could affect your coordination and attention. Menninghau...
Prelude to the rain with Udo
This is the story of a German war-games champion named Udo who meets his match while vacationing on Spain’s Costa Brava. Returning to the Hotel Del Mar, where he spent the summers of his childhood, Udo is accompanied by his beloved Ingeborg. It’s the couple’s first holiday together, but his greater obsession is Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game. At a bar one night, Udo is introduced to a severely disfigured local known as El Quemado, who later becomes his Third Reich oppone...
Prelude to the rain with Udo
This is the story of a German war-games champion named Udo who meets his match while vacationing on Spain’s Costa Brava. Returning to the Hotel Del Mar, where he spent the summers of his childhood, Udo is accompanied by his beloved Ingeborg. It’s the couple’s first holiday together, but his greater obsession is Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game. At a bar one night, Udo is introduced to a severely disfigured local known as El Quemado, who later becomes his Third Reich oppone...
Fat words for Fat people
Swollen words for swollen peoplehttps://twitter.com/lepeleth/status/1546304767651086337 Where Science Fiction can be defined as the implementation of the project of Progressive Technology - a vision of uninhibited technological growth spreading out into a far future that has been speculatively planned - cyberpunk lurks in the near future, building itself out of the unanticipated consequences of technical development. Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a ...
Fat words for Fat people
Swollen words for swollen peoplehttps://twitter.com/lepeleth/status/1546304767651086337 Where Science Fiction can be defined as the implementation of the project of Progressive Technology - a vision of uninhibited technological growth spreading out into a far future that has been speculatively planned - cyberpunk lurks in the near future, building itself out of the unanticipated consequences of technical development. Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a ...
Tohu
Asymmetry of amplitude, asymmetry of rhythm, total change of rhythm.Cyberpunk speculations are already techno-economic infrastructure: contemporary social reality condenses out of the future rather than developing from the past. How could anything other than a fiction any longer be true? In the electronically mediated sonic environment that is the telephone conversation many of the normal cues exchanged in a face to face conversation are missing or altered. 
Female Body Compiler
Because words today are cheap and infinitely produced, they are detritus, signifying little, meaning less. Disorientation by replication and spam is the norm. Notions of the authentic or original are increasingly untraceable. Words today are bubbles, shape-shifters, empty signifiers, floating on the invisibility of the network. Digital text is the body-double of print, the ghost in the machine. The ghost has become more useful than the real; if we can’t download it, it doesn’t exist. Words ar...
Female Body Compiler
Because words today are cheap and infinitely produced, they are detritus, signifying little, meaning less. Disorientation by replication and spam is the norm. Notions of the authentic or original are increasingly untraceable. Words today are bubbles, shape-shifters, empty signifiers, floating on the invisibility of the network. Digital text is the body-double of print, the ghost in the machine. The ghost has become more useful than the real; if we can’t download it, it doesn’t exist. Words ar...
