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Perhaps the most radical political project would be to consider art as political, and pleasure as edifying. Then we may be able to see how these things can work in concert, as active political processes of learning and teaching without distance, as collective projects for the increase of joy.

by Anthony Marcellini

Not Going the Distance: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht and Binary Thinking Brought up in the 11th International Istanbul Biennial.

http://www.republicart.net/disc/aap/cvejic01_en.htm

Bojana Cvejić 01/2005

http://www.metropolism.com/magazine/2008-no1/english

Metaphors are useful. They make you see things. Take ‘The world is a stage’ for example. It’s just a picture. But it allows you to observe the ‘roles’ we play when we engage in social life.

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Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE: Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations.

The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality

Network culture is not limited to digital technology or to the Internet but rather is a broad sociocultural shift. Under network culture both art and everyday life take mediation as a given. Life becomes performance, taking place in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback from the net. This chapter explores the role of this poetics of the real in cultural production from YouTube to the gallery. The new poetics of reality is not the traditional realism. Earlier codes are replaced by immediacy, self-exposure, performance, and remix.

http://www.mediaartplatform.org/blog/sandra-fauconnier