Current discourse around technology and its latest carnation is fraught and raging. Materialism and its Discontents expresses concerns, confusion, excitement, and the loss that a Judeo-Christian outlook on life must grapple with through the lens of art in our era. It invites readers to reflect on the interplay between art and technology, and the rest…
The zine is a snapshot of an ongoing inquiry. It is a small, but I hope valuable, manifestation which emerged via ongoing questions, doubts, and frustrations that feed into a wider project. All the manifestations that emerge from my scribblings are entangled relations, and this is a sibling to the work I made with Maria Ahmed.
The publication’s contents and its related blog-posts result from a fruitful, perhaps a little angry, energetic moment in my rambling investigations.
The ramblings and meanderings related to the zine have been collected here and are listed below:
- Post Nine: Notes on a schizophrenic metaphor/reality/modernity and human critters
- Post Eight: Notes on Gods and Machines
- Post Seven: Notes as a list
- Post Six: Image
- Post Five: Notes continued and certain connections made (maybe)
- Post Four: Image
- Post Three: Stop, Shutter, Fix
- Post Two: Image
- Post One: Notes on the making and un/making of the Western world
- Research notes: Materialism and its discontents
Some of the contradictions, complexities and difficulties I explore in the posts above also fed into a somewhat more cohesive talk I gave for the OU/Shifting Power’s After AI Symposium last week. I had to ask for that talk not to be recorded since some of it will form new work, which has been promised elsewhere. I will share news about that as and when it’s ready.
In the meantime, this zine can be purchased on my website.