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What is Internet Art?
How do we describe what we see on the internet? Is it “art?” Ytmnd.com is a website of user created “memes,” and the “demoscene” is about testing the limits of what a computer can do. These are obscure examples. But what do they both have in common? The YTMND & demoscene philosophy states that art…
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The DPRK Ricecels Who Theorize Their Hatred For WMAF
Rhetoric is as ancient as Aristotle. To even conduct an act of persuasion, the speaker must know the history of Western civilization and its connection with philosophy. However, understanding the English language isn’t enough to guarantee the same logical conclusions. George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” that the English…
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Pre-Writing, Non-Writing, and The End of Writing
“Any conception of culture that would designate the propensity to write as an indicator of a culture’s wealth and complexity should be discarded,” writes Eric A. Havelock. “A culture can rely entirely on some kind of spoken communication and nevertheless be a culture with all that it entails.”1 -Alain de Benoist, Runes and the Origins…
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Why Straight Edge and DIY Matters
The term “straight edge” is widely debated. Even the word “DIY” gets confused as something suburban moms do as a hobby. Straight edge is a subculture within hardcore punk that refrains from using alcohol, tobacco, eating meat, promiscuous sex, and recreational drugs, in reaction to the decadence and self-destruction of punk music. DIY, in the…
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Against Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams isn’t a household name. However, his version of functionalism (that design should focus on its purpose and be as minimal as possible) has profoundly influenced the American liberal elite and their aesthetic taste against the world’s arts, technology, and economy. Industrial design is applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by…
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Philos and Expression
Trying to define “art” will lead to a deep investigation of human creativity. Understanding what art is will help better understand what is to be accomplished, and why someone is making art in the first place. There are many creative activities to choose from. Be it painting, music, literature, dance, etc. One can’t merely equalize…
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Against The Egalitarian Canon
Everything before November 16, 1999 was innocent. The 90’s were special. People once used the internet as a niche communication device. Bulletin board systems were an adventure into no man’s land, and GeoCities was considered high-tech for its time. Blogs were becoming more than personal diaries. A young student by the name of Richard “Lowtax”…
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Digital Object Theory
“Digital object theory” states that all the arts, whether that may be music, photography, writing, performance, film, sculpture, animation, or anything visual, will solely exist in the digital realm, as one, encompassing digital file type. All the arts will become digital, and art in the 21st century should be understood as digital objects, and not…
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Remembering Joe Matt (1963 – 2023)
Joe Matt is my spiritual clone. He was born on September 3rd, just like me. He was raised in the Philadelphia area, just like me. His first name is Joe, just like me. And he had ambitions to be a cartoonist, just like me. He recently died of a heart attack in his Los Angeles…
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“Asian” as a Social Construct
We know there is racial difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and they all happen to share the same label as “Asian.” We also know there is racial difference between German, French, Hungarian, and so on, and we happen to call them all “white.” There is talk that there will be a singular “Asain race”…