Nmherman on Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:06:01 +0100 (CET)


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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Behind the Blip: Software as Culture


In a message dated 1/7/2002 4:55:31 PM Central Standard Time, matt@axia.demon.co.uk writes:


As is well known, their work is a substantial resource.  However, it
appears that there is a particular blockage, much more so in the work
of Deleuze than of Guattari18, when it comes to a useable theorisation
of media.  There is a tendency here which is typical, not just of their
work, but of much theoretical work throughout that of the Twentieth
Century.  Whilst some media systems, such as books, music, painting,
film, etc. are entered into with a profound spirit of exploration and
invention, those that are electronic are treated as being fundamentally
suspicious.

As a result, their work, jumps in and out of various similarly short
and undifferentiated takes on electronic media.  My claim here in short
is that electronic media do participate in 'conceptuality'.  That the
conceptual personae that they so suggestively propose in 'What is
Philosophy' can be read as a proposal for an understanding of software
as a form of digital subjectivity, that software constructs sensoriums.


I just don't know if I agree that sensoriums are subjectivity, digital or not.

Interesting and useful essay however, danke.

Max Herman

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