Christopher Johnson's List: New Aesthetics

• If New Aesthetics is bringing something new here I think it’s “processuality.”  It’s about the aesthetics of watching the code run, as opposed to static printouts of code as psychedelic underground comix. The issue of social relations, of finding meaning through the network, that’s very important but also metaphysical — it’s about how we know what we know.  It’s an issue of “media philosophy.”   Problems here which used to be quite speculative and farfetched are becoming urgent.  I’m hoping for rescue.
• The New Aesthetic is a deliberate attempt to break this steampunk stasis of atemporality, to get things rolling again by emphasizing the genuinely novel aspects of our contemporary experience.   Bu
•   I hope it doesn’t require a big catastrophe, like the way the first world war abolished the happy-time neurasthenia of the Belle Epoque.

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