One is the important recognition that the New Aesthetic project is undertaken within its own medium: it is an attempt to “write” critically about the network in the vernacular of the network itself: in a tumblr, in blog posts, in YouTube videos of lectures, tweeted reports and messages, reblogs, likes, and comments. In this sense, from my perspective, it is as much work as criticism: it does not conform to the formal shapes – manifesto, essay, book – expected by critics and academics. As a result, it remains largely illegible to them, despite frequent public statements of the present kind.
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In an odd mood this morning. This new Bridle essay didn’t simply move me , it made me cry. The legibility and literacy he points toward is something that I have been struggling to come to grips with over the last few years. And gaining that literacy while physically being amongst people that have no interest in gaining it grows more frustrating and maddening the more the gains become manifest.
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This is important
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Agreed, signal boost. echo and amplify.