Issue #5


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Editorial


As we see the art world recalibrate again to a new cultural necessity, reacting to the face of power in a spectrum of ways, we’re seeing how closely connected cultural behaviour is, in reality, predictably mapped onto private interests. Very specific and niche individual trade-offs between the accuracy of an actor’s self view and their world view, mixed with their calculations and desires in relation to their personal biases, perceptions of positive value (social, political and economic value) as well their perceptions of the future are calculated determining a person’s consumer habits and in turn their cultural choices... [buy]

The Editors


Contents



p. 10.........................Editorial

p. 12.........................Bettina Funcke – Are Those Your Poems or Did You Write Them Yourself?

p. 18.........................An Interview with Nick Seaver – Algorithms *Are* Culture

p. 22.........................Mary Flanagan – Pretty Real

p. 28.........................Image spread by Paul Austin

p. 36.........................Kenneth Goldsmith – From “The Ideal Lecture” (In Memory of David
                                Antin)

p. 40.........................Kenneth Goldsmith – From “Soliloquy” (1996)

p. 42.........................Pablo Baler – The Mad Flux of Life

p. 56.........................Image spread by David Mramor

p. 64.........................James Gill – The Death of Subculture: The Changing Role of Subculture in
                               the 21st Century

p. 84.........................Artist edition by Camille Blatrix



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