{"id":2084,"date":"2014-04-21T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/i-believe-that-much-of-the-weak-commentary-on-the\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:48","slug":"i-believe-that-much-of-the-weak-commentary-on-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/i-believe-that-much-of-the-weak-commentary-on-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>I believe that much of the weak commentary on the New Aesthetic is a direct result of a weak technological literacy in the arts, and the critical discourse that springs from it. It is also representative of a far wider critical and popular failure to engage fully with technology in its construction, operation and affect. Since at least the introduction of the VCR \u2013 perhaps the first truly domesticated computational object \u2013 it seems there has been a concerted, societal rejection of technical understanding, wherein the attitude that \u201cI don\u2019t understand this and therefore don\u2019t like this and therefore I will not investigate this\u201d is ascendant and lauded. This attitude manifests in the low-level Luddite response to almost every technical innovation; in the stigmatisation of geek culture and interests, academic and recreational; in the managerial culture of economic government \u2013 and in the elevation of sleek, black-box corporate-controlled objects, platforms and services, from the iPhone to the SUV, over open-source, hackable, comprehensible and shareable alternatives. This wilful anti-technicalism, which is a form of anti-intellectualism, mirrors the present cultural obsession with nostalgia, retro and vintage which was one of the spurs for the entire New Aesthetic project; it is boring, and we reject it.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/new-aesthetic-politics\/\">The New Aesthetic and its Politics | booktwo.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Bridle pulls no punches and goes after art critics who do not know their tech. I guess it is unlikely all of them will change their ways and so for the foreseeable future we will have to repeat this argument again and again.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that much of the weak commentary on the New Aesthetic is a direct result of a weak technological literacy in the arts, and the critical discourse that springs from it. It is also representative of a far wider critical and popular failure to engage fully with technology in its construction, operation and affect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/i-believe-that-much-of-the-weak-commentary-on-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}