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The new sensibility of viral consciousness that I am feeling, which is based on the merging of art, digital technology and political ideas… |
The new sensibility of
viral consciousness that I am feeling, which is based on the merging of
art, digital technology and political ideas around life science (in my
case artificial life), is based on my observation that art, politics
and science, after centuries of separation, are becoming entangled
again through the discredidation of the concept – one might say
presumption – of objectivity (the news).The
viral-connectivist sensibility I am feeling is part and parcel with a
noology of inter-subjectivity, which on one hand, gives art the license
to appropriate scientific and political tropes, and on the other, lends
science and politics art’s powers of non-utility, freedom, and even
excess.This
sensibility is political in the sense that it is about knowledge that
can transform things and states of the system. In that sense I am
maintaining that we are leaving the age of reductive political critique
and analysis and entering into one of fecund synthesis; much like the
poetic-mythic-scientific age of the early Renaissance. The binding
force of this synthesis is certainly inter-subjective art with its
possible novel comprehensions out of which new political possibilities
may grow. The feeling I have is that we are trying to exit a new dark
age that grew out of the deceptions of 9-11.
