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The latest Pseuds Corner column features this item attributed to Tobias
Collier, from "Antigram", which is part of the "Tunnelvision installation at
Aldwych tube station".
"Art paradigms exist as emergent nodal points, mapping an expansive language
of reference, subject to the universal power of viral replicators. The
insubstantial, frequently ambiguous and increasingly deterritorialised
nature of contemporary fine art practice, coupled with the drive to
radicalism and expectation of privatisation in the individual of a
generation whose synapses are already stimulated by a lifetime of
ultra-exposure creates a climate of perceived incontinuity.
The desire to achieve resolution of this conative (sic) dissonance in the
autopoietic system that is self, induced by the accelerated horizontal
transmission of memetic replicators from the rhizomatic field of experience
to the selfplex memepool is what gives rise to further mutations. This will
in itself force the production of a succession of increasingly virile
replicators, more able to fulfil the requirements of precise, multiple and
durable infections. Ultimately a positive feedback loop is in place that,
in its attempts to homogenise existence, finds itself with the increased
obligation to the position of active ambivalance (sic) or becoming."
If I had 70 quid to spare, I travel to London just to see this!!
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