More Brilliant than the Sun [Kodwo Eshun]
julio 16th, 2011 § 1 comentario
Science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it determines it, colonizes it, preprograms it in the image of the present (William Gibson)
Electric circuitry confers a mythic dimension on our ordinary individual and group actions. Our technology forces us to live mythically (Marshall McLuhan)
Sonically speaking, the posthuman era is not one of disembodiment but the exact reverse: it’s a hyperembodiment, via the Technics SL 1200. [...] Migrating from the lab to the studio, Sonic Science not only talks about cultural viruses, it is itself a viral contagion. It’s a sensational infection by the spread of what Ishmael Reed terms antiplagues. Machine Music doesn ‘t call itself science because it controls technology, but because music is the artform most thoroughly undermined and recombinated and reconfigured by technics. [...] More Brilliant is a mechanography, an omnidirectional exploration into mechano-informatics , the secret life of machines which opens up the vast and previously unsuspected coevolution of machines and humans in late 20th C Black Atlantic Futurism (Kodwo Eshun)
Enorme, muchas gracias por el link. More Brilliant… era el último ejemplar que me faltaba para completar una pequeña colección digital que quiero leer, que incluye The Thirst For Annihilation de Nick Land, Sonic Warfare de Steve Goodman y el básico (me parece) Anti-Edipo de Deleuze-Guattari; por alguna razón las ideas de todos ellos han dado de vueltas por mi cabeza esta temporada, y los he intentado pescar en los últimos meses.
Hiperstition-hauntology-machinic-technihilism-neuroporno…
saludos
Gerardo Sifuentes