Re: [Pen-l] Hunger

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
LP's comment somewhat parallels my own concern about the current art  
market scene.  There seems to be a disconnect of concerns in the art  
market with information technology.  The art market does not predict  
changes in storage and therefore how increases in data transform  
information qualities.  The connectedness of artist is often mystified  
as tiny schools of like minded production that pop up in the art  
market store sites.

Capitalist art is not exactly anti realist since it doesn't care what  
sells things.  But the reality of relations in capitalism is a  
constant thorn in the side of conveying public information.  The world  
commodity art scene is not interested in developing content that  
threatens capitalism.

It's fairly easy to assert kinds of realism that would affect social  
content.  GPS affects knowing where one is with greater accuracy, and  
communicating that to friends or work.  Attaching information to  
location somewhat like street signs function today is another form of  
realism that has great possible impact.  The broadband size of  
communications allow more use and distribution of on demand movie  
content, hence increases picture production by orders of magnitude.   
Terabytes and Petabytes of information used realistically is another  
avenue of realism development for example what evolves libraries on  
line.

Over all the art market can't develop these sorts of public social  
content and tails after the jargon and commodity production of  
information technology.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> I think the British art scene is a crock of shit myself. Proof of  
> that is the success of Damien Hirst with his shark in formaldehyde  
> and his skull made of diamonds. As far as the body being an  
> instrument of oppression,

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