Tag: art

Kill the author
One of the things that I've never really understood is the tendency of people to have heroes. To look at one particular idea, achievement, cultural contribution, creation, that someone has made, or even a whole string of them, and conclude from that that they're going to look up to this person as a whole human being -- to admire them, imitate them, see them as a role model, whatever. The reason I don't understand this is that it seems almost like a target location error to me -- a confusion. You...
XENOVISUALS
XENOVISUALS has taken hold of me. XENOVISUALS revolves around the creation of visual media by machine, where the very lack of human intentionality becomes the central artistic statement. In this form, the blurring, melding, and nonsensicality of details --- and thus the lack of their importance --- is the entire point of the details. The lack of focus, and the machine-like simplicity of the composition is the entire point of the composition. The randomness of the composition and the speed of its...
High culture, low culture, and what I want to write
Although reading in depth is very difficult withmy disability, and after years of having to rely nearly exclusively on audiobooks for my entertainment I've been finding myself deeply burnt out on them, I try to make a point to really challenge myself in my reading. To choose things that, while still within my range of interests, are dense, complex, nuanced, have interesting ideas, try new literary devices, or are part of the literary canon of whatever genre or subgenre I'm exploring. I push myse...
High culture, low culture, and what I want to write
Although reading in depth is very difficult withmy disability, and after years of having to rely nearly exclusively on audiobooks for my entertainment I've been finding myself deeply burnt out on them, I try to make a point to really challenge myself in my reading. To choose things that, while still within my range of interests, are dense, complex, nuanced, have interesting ideas, try new literary devices, or are part of the literary canon of whatever genre or subgenre I'm exploring. I push myse...