John Young on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:30:34 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> 'Wikipedia Art' Wikipedia entry deleted 15 February 2009 |
Wasn't it the intention of the Wikipedia Artists to be deleted, rejected, booted, driven outside the fold in order to raise hell about it, hurl rotten eggs at the temple of acceptability? Else why bother when there are so many slits online begging for glorifying disgust, why even counterterrorism weeps at its loss of cash register gravitas. True, oh so true, there is hardly a place online where illegitimate, much less illegal, worse, outright criminal, art can last for long in the face of near-absolute indifference, well, outside of capacious welcoming nirvana of pornography which remains the fertilist op for old time formulaic aesthetic protest to garner a smidgen of smitedness, well, excepting kiddie porn which breeds drooling cops and prosecutors as if there were no other useful jismatic sport for undercover curators forebad sex. Yeah, set a viewing spot for high-toned art of naked kids being mincemeated by CIA drones. This is the plasma screen fare on the Langley 7th floor corner office just occupied by Leon Panetta, shown to the mesmerized select guests in his private dining den, slurp, slurp. Wikipedia is a nice diversion for breaking free of Readers Digest, of the President's Daily Brief. Is it true that assassination can be done by injecting pure nicotine in the wall of the anus, allegedly done to Marilyn, so sayeth an artist of official despicability? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org