Why Conspiracy Theories?

[catalog]

i've a nice little poster i made and exhibited in islington mill which is dean blunt explaining the point really well i'll try and find it

 

[catalog]

 

[version]

we had a spate of talking about this a while ago, can't remember which thread, but yeah, the new, by definition, is unknown.

Where is the avant-garde?

watching that Bacon film and reading Ulysses has me wondering where this stuff is today. Is there even an audience for 2020's equivalent? Tom McCarthy's contention's that if James Joyce were alive today he'd be working for Google... It is not just that people with degrees in English generally go...

dissensus.com

Originality?

What's the most original bit of music? Was it worth it?

dissensus.com

 

[version]

I suppose you get writers trying to depict our present moment, with up to the minute cultural analyses of the latest technology and so on, but like Faulkner said, “the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past.” I just like to throw this in reverse, this fetish for the contemporary, and show how it is completely infused with all of these frames or ghost, if you like, of its own past. And the future itself is a kind of fiction produced of that odd couple. These time twists, and…flexes…it’s something that Joyce understands so well. I think literature at its best as a privileged access to this omnipresence of pasts, presents, and futures that are all up in the air. Nothing is less contemporary than contemporary art or fiction. Than art that has something to say about the now. I think the whole point of the now is that it’s precisely what we can’t articulate.

 

[catalog]

your retrieval powers never fail to impress. pray tell, what search terms revealed the fruit?

 

[catalog]

i think stan is actually wrong and needs to know and this should help him see the light

 

[version]

your retrieval powers never fail to impress. pray tell, what search terms revealed the fruit?

I remembered the threads and remembered quoting that McCarthy interview, so I just searched 'McCarthy'.

 

[catalog]

have you got a particularly good memory do you think? or just average? is it something you've ever tohught about?

 

[version]

I have thought about it, but it's difficult to gauge. I could have an average memory and just be the only person who can be bothered to actually go looking for stuff.

 

[vimothy]

we had a spate of talking about this a while ago, can't remember which thread, but yeah, the new, by definition, is unknown.

it's not simply a question of AI being new

 

[catalog]

in a nutshell, what s the added issue with AI? That its too expensive? Elitist?

 

[vimothy]

that its impossible

 

[catalog]

i though tit was only a matter of time? so yer saying that's the big lie.

so it's just like nanotech and IoT?

 

[luka]

 

[vimothy]

its all bullshit, I'm afraid

 

[vimothy]

i've a nice little poster i made and exhibited in islington mill which is dean blunt explaining the point really well i'll try and find it

are you from manchester, @catalog?

 

[luka]

Yeah he is that's why he loves indie music.

 

[vimothy]

wow I didnt think anyone else lived here

 

[constant escape]

i think stan is actually wrong and needs to know and this should help him see the light

That the actual new is unforeseeable? Cause we can only draw from what we know, and thus only have old tools to describe the new? Prognosis only has the old at is disposal when approximating the new?

 

[catalog]

i'm in that general area yes. but i'm not saying specifically cos luka will use it agaist me