Every time Jim or some other #ds106 denizen says “let’s make some art, dammit”, I think of this video rant from the late Terence McKenna:
How do we fight back?
Every time Jim or some other #ds106 denizen says “let’s make some art, dammit”, I think of this video rant from the late Terence McKenna:
How do we fight back?
He’s a regular quote
machineartist:“Led by the least among us.”
“The art pedal to the metal.”
The cannibalistic demiurge.”
Wow, I love his style, and I want what he is on. But I really do agree with him, I just don’t really know what art is, aside from animated GIFs, everything seems to be part of the machine—save the abject.
And the quote that Grant just flagged on Twitter: put the art pedal to the metal… to “maximize your humanness and become much more necessary and incomprehensible to the machine”…
I don’t agree with everything McKenna has to say (his Timewave stuff seems crackpot, I guess we’ll learn that for sure on December 21 next year), but he’s such an erudite, engaging fellow that I never tire of listening to him. A lot of his talks are available on this podcast, which regularly produces my best late-night Dexter-walking listening fodder.