Theory

Theory

Multidisciplinary discourse and critical shitposting about art, tech, and culture in web3 and beyond.

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According to Marx's "Labor Theory of Value," one shouldn't spend time working to redo what the owners just undid. Ain't no way I'm manually inviting 1000 people to this channel, so here's the invite link. Bots and spammers will be banned. https://warpcast.com/~/channel/theory/join?inviteCode=xqRHyZ8aLBvXtm9XZlqXqA

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Know where the levers lie.

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A focus on the first transfer, finance as social practice, at point of entrance to the art market. How might this intervention play out? This and more coming soon in Circulation, an upcoming TXT publication experiment.

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Truth from one half of White Pube.

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"Distracted 3/3" by tiegenhof on @objktcom Everybody is distracted all the time It's a phenomenom called the Attention Economy If you want know more read a book, there are plenty about it. 👀

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An analysis of the latest dystopian White House meme posts. This one sums it all up pretty well https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-white-house-is-memeing-too-hard/

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It's not even about policy: it’s about attention grabbing. Deportations under Trump’s first term were lower than the peak levels seen under Obama or Clinton. As Justin Smith-Ruiu has recently observed, this trend is indicative of the broader incursion of social media discourse into politics. He argues that we have entered “the 4chan regime,” or one that uses performative, shock-jock cruelty. The hard work of implementing effective reforms gets lost in the constant pursuit of the next viral moment.

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RIP Jean Baudrillard, you would have loved memecoins on Zora 😢 https://zora.co/coin/base:0xb47b785b53478e27a4408951a08ea8e48f2b85e5

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a see a lot of digital artworks that are described as 'experimental', and often we assume that to mean 'just trying stuff'. so i really enjoyed this quote by Haley Thurston that stipulates what experimental art should *actually* be.

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Another example of what I was talking about these days. The medium is the message. If the medium is Ghibli memes from the Israel Defense Forces, then the message is that bombing their neighbors is super fun. The content of the medium is a message that can be easily grasped and the character of the medium is another message which can be easily overlooked. McLuhan says "Indeed, it is only too typical that the 'content' of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium".

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The memefication of politics from the government is an intentional attempt to trivialise, dehumanise and desensitise as they deploy brutal measures. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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aesthetics are not surface appearance, but a philosophy.

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Yes, i minted Deleuze and Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus” as a memecoin on Zora. Yes, it’s the full text. No, i dgaf about the bonding curve, i’m just trying to do my part to make this space less re****ed 🙏🏽❤️

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bonj' 🌞 here are 5 things i read on the internet recently. bookmark this cast & come back to it later if sth interests you! : 1. 'Queer Servers and Feral Web' by Austin Wade Smith https://tinyurl.com/3c6p8bry 2: 'The Dark Forest and the Cosy Web' by Maggie Appleton https://tinyurl.com/bdcns3pw 3: 'Can contemporary art be anything but imperial? Žižek, Girard, Badiou and the (In)exorability of ‘Cultural Capitalism’ by rothko's girlfriend https://tinyurl.com/54tavjnf 4: 'FATE NO LONGER SMILES ON US, EUROPEANS' by Slavoj Žižek https://tinyurl.com/msdadj69 5: 'how to begin' by Celine Nguyen https://tinyurl.com/y7k35eru

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