Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
The ultra-Taylorist Soviet utopianism of Aleksei Gastev (including Gastev’s landmark book <i>How to Work</i>/<i>Как надо работать</i>)
Brilliant exploration of the patterns that connect industry, technology, scientific management and modernist art.
Does Analysing Stunt Creativity?
Does Analysing Stunt Creativity?.
Rachael Pinks asks an important question and comments on the relationship between what in NLP and Self Relations we might refer to as ‘cognitive mind’ and ‘somatic mind’.
It could be argued that technology separates cognitive thinking and somatic doing, attempting to mediate them by inserting ‘controlling’. Capitalism arranges them hierarchically, with thinking at the top, doing at the bottom and controlling in the middle. ‘thinkers’ have power and wealth, whilst ‘doers’ generally lack both.
I want to say that art integrates thinking and doing, though I am aware that it is not always the case, take conceptual art for example, are not thinking and doing often separated along exactly the same lines as in capitalist production?
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