Re: LIFESCIENCE: Re: A Reactionary Reaction

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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Trevor schrieb:

sorry trevor i did not quite get your point in the following
would you explain it to me?

>      i.e. Conceptualism        has   destroyed      Aesthetics

what do you mean with conceptualism

>
>           Computerized tools   have  destroyed the  Medium
>

i think the kinds of media change but they are still media, they are based on
mechanical or electronical devices, also these tools are not just harmless
computerized tools but have implemented media structures.

>           Virtual Reality      has   destroyed the  Metaphor

but VR is totally metaphorical and based on metaphor and it uses metaphor like
that of an interface of a city

>
>           Post Modernism       has   destroyed      Value and Meaning

> this sounds very conservative

> >of dada-like shocking tactics, but as Friedrich Kittler says art does not
> >kill,
> >but media do.
>
> Is art then not a medium?

yes of course but it is not technically produced mechanically or electronically by
a machine or something like that. it in general.  there is the parallelization of
media and war, after virilio  the movies and war

> Actually, I heard George Steiner on television once saying that he had
> concidered the problem of why many violent war criminals appeared also able to
> appreciate sensitive forms of art.
> He concluded it was not because they were insincere -but because they were so
> involved in the "artistic virtual reality" that the reality of their deeds did
> not occur to them.
>

a very thrilling and dangerous at one time. mass murderers and serial killers war
criminals they totally lost the connection to human reality and are let by
ideological and psychological principles that makes them forget to think about the
consequences. the same with the geneticist working in his laboratory doing his
science job without considering what military or commercial consequences this
might be producing.
teenage violence has other implications, they are partly an expression of their
bodily state of transfer between, they do not have a pychological or ideological
master plan to fullfill.

>
> The term "Virtual Reality" is redundant -because for the human mind ALL
> reality is "virtual".

 yes d accord
greetings to trevor and eugene where is melinda?
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