neo romanticism, Lev Manovich, postmodernity discourses

[Jon Cates <jcates@xxxxxxxxx>]

Those following these threads may be interested in a recent nettime 
post, 'Processual Media Theory and the Art of Day Trading' by Ned 
Rossiter. In this draft of a presentation paper Rossiter takes issue 
with the modernist purity or lack of economic/social/cultural 
contexts in Manovich's New Media discourse. Rossiter states 
"Aesthetic production is defined by transformative iterations, rather 
than supposedly discrete objects in commodity form. Processual 
aesthetics is related to the notion of the sublime...". The focus on 
"transformative iterations" creates a direct link to remix culture. 
The critique of commodity status parallels the practice of posting 
urls for downloading files, creating small gift economies. His use of 
the sublime raises the issue of Romanticism, which has yet to be 
discussed overtly in these microsound threads. Richard Coyne's 
_TechnoRomanticism_ draws interesting connections w/current 
technological/digital/new-media arts and various aspects of the 
Romantic ideologies. Has anyone onlist read _TechnoRomanticism_?
Jon Cates

nettime post, 'Processual Media Theory and the Art of Day Trading' by 
Ned Rossiter
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0212/msg00091.html

Richard Coyne's (_TechnoRomanticism_) site, featuring many shorter 
works for download in PDF format
http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/~richard/

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