(Art as) Communication vs. Expression

[luka]

I know I said I don't consider them human, but I don't mean it in a bad way. I was saying it in the interests of communicating better. How do you have a conversation with a machine? What lessons can we learn?

 

[luka]

I need to work out how to use them but I just don't understand them. I haven't worked out how to communicate. We don't seem to be speaking the same language. I will solve this puzzle however.

 

[catalog]

There's a few gags in the early hours but it seems like the nice Americans don't have a whole lot to have a laugh about. It's all a bit serious. I think it's less easy nowadays to be an idiot on certain aspects of your life if yoh feel yourself becoming an idiot, you look up your symptoms online and correct them.

 

[luka]

also we are drunk by the time they're having lunch which doesn't help

 

[beiser]

if he’s gonna own us on the other stuff i’m going for the jugular (talking shit about “british cuisine”)

 

[luka]

I'm trying to make friends and communicat better I don't want go for the jugular

 

[beiser]

gotta put on wiley every AM to distract yourself from that you’re eating boiled peas again

 

[woops]

in fact we are all terrified at the prospect of brexit resulting in american food being sold here, unlabelled so as to pass it off as actual food, you know where you are with a boiled pea

 

[constant escape]

This place might prove a fertile culture, a ground zero, for a cadre of schizo egalitarian ubermensch. Not sure if/how American will fit into it.

Think from one perspective to learn that perspective terms, then switch to another to learn its terms, then engage in inter-perspectival translation. Wiring together psyches through a circuit of reality tunnels.

In what directions, to which magnitudes, would Alice's reality have to shift to more keenly approximate Bob's reality? Is this transformation symmetric? Would Alice to Bob to Alice prove palindromic? Or would it be asymmetric, such as when you use Google translate, and you input a phrase, and repeatedly press the switch button, with the phrase significantly shifting every time?

Stitching together languages of valuations, as a means of circumnavigating language problems. Each patch a system, the whole fabric a metasystem. In fact, the processes of translation that bind different systems together might prove more useful than the systems themselves.

 

[constant escape]

In fact, if this cadre is to abide by the budding global orthodoxy, it would have to be a globalist agenda, or at least an agenda that is compossible with globalism, rather than deemed deplorable or reactionary.

 

[constant escape]

Largely hypothetical. The cadre is a proxy of hypothesis. That said, it shouldn't be too much to work toward.

 

[catalog]

Our idiotness is baked in.

 

[constant escape]

The points made by @luka and maybe others about the ambiguously inhuman tone of a lot of this. The point isn't merely to shed the constraints of being human, but to embed the human into a larger framework, to elevate it from the body of your being, to an organ within the body of your being. Pathos isn't to be snuffed, just integrated healthily into a wider system.

 

[catalog]

did any of the new Americans ever answer that question from a while ago? Do any of them like contemporary black music? Why not? Why do people like barty like migos but the young Americans like indie and 80s stuff?

 

[constant escape]

Creating an ever more robust map of the system in which pathos plays an operative role.

 

[linebaugh]

I like contemporary black music. as do most young white americans.

I dont think stan likes music period

 

[constant escape]

I'm sure I'd like a lot of it, I just don't listen to music much. Living in Chicago for a while, I dipped my toes into the music produced/distributed by International Anthem.

International Anthem Recording Company

A Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive media. Distribution via Redeye for US, Canada, North & South America. Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW.

www.discogs.com

Makaya McCraven's great

Universal Beings E&F Sides, by Makaya McCraven

14 track album

intlanthem.bandcamp.com

 

[catalog]

Stan likes a bit of classical but it's very odd he doesn't like anything else.

Lin I know you like Kanye and thug and all that.

But there seems to me to be a thing about this, maybe I'm wrong tho.

I mean, there's no OBSESSIVE LOVE for drill or trap. Or is there?

 

[constant escape]

They also represent Moor Mother, whom I narrowly missed seeing one time at an afrofuturist gathering

Aside from that, I like Drag City, but I get the sense that is more white.

 

[constant escape]

I could probably identify trap if its being played, but to my knowledge none of it resonated with me. Drill I have no idea.