Each of these selections opens an important area of inquiry. How did the qualities and modalities of experience you mention become tabu/taboo? Why? And there's just so much here: Illich, who needs to be more widely read, and the Wendell Berry quote, spot-on. About the mechanization of the human, audiences laughed at Charlie Chaplin’s robotized antics as a factory worker in Modern Times. Tellingly, the funniest parts are when the robot-like Chaplin wanders into human society outside the factory walls. He clearly doesn’t fit in. This stands in contrast to the less visible shift you describe, of people “…thinking in terms of acquiring “information” from a book instead of having the experience of reading it.” Unlike robotic Chaplin, person can fit right in with that level of mechanization. Hence the need to find, as you write here, “…more fundamental art zones that cannot be colonized by machines.” Thank you.
I feel your contribution here is worthy regardless of further extrapolation on your part. I've been thinking about what you've said here off and on for over a week now. Regarding the “…more fundamental art zones that cannot be colonized by machines," the discovery of which is probably one of the most necessary questions of our times, one person whose work you may want to look into (if you have not done so already) is Antonin Artaud.
Each of these selections opens an important area of inquiry. How did the qualities and modalities of experience you mention become tabu/taboo? Why? And there's just so much here: Illich, who needs to be more widely read, and the Wendell Berry quote, spot-on. About the mechanization of the human, audiences laughed at Charlie Chaplin’s robotized antics as a factory worker in Modern Times. Tellingly, the funniest parts are when the robot-like Chaplin wanders into human society outside the factory walls. He clearly doesn’t fit in. This stands in contrast to the less visible shift you describe, of people “…thinking in terms of acquiring “information” from a book instead of having the experience of reading it.” Unlike robotic Chaplin, person can fit right in with that level of mechanization. Hence the need to find, as you write here, “…more fundamental art zones that cannot be colonized by machines.” Thank you.
Thank you. You're right all these notes should be expanded, I hope I can do it at some point.
I feel your contribution here is worthy regardless of further extrapolation on your part. I've been thinking about what you've said here off and on for over a week now. Regarding the “…more fundamental art zones that cannot be colonized by machines," the discovery of which is probably one of the most necessary questions of our times, one person whose work you may want to look into (if you have not done so already) is Antonin Artaud.
Artaud, yes, I'm familiar with his ideas, but mostly indirectly, through texts about him. I have to read his texts too. Thx.