Re: <nettime> Review of Gregory Sholette's "Dark Matter" - corrected

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

> We go on picking the rags, but every now and again, this other social

snip...

> sourcing. The archive has split open. We are its dead capital. It is
> the dawn of the dead."
>
> This blatant appeal to the use-value of our necrophilia, artistic
> waste, the products of our labor and time, runs throughout an
> historical text, alternately conscious of its own limitations and
> brilliantly pervasive in its political critique and arts research.

Molly -- this resonates with the idea of a bio-system where there is an excess 
of information -- that is, too much genetic diversity -- such that the need to 
procreate does not sit so heavily on individual organisms and that 'creative' 
energy can be expressed in non-essential forms. (Think of the myriad anecdotal 
ways that procreating changes the (perhaps your!) expression of 'artistic' 
energy).  This situation, the opposite to, for example, needing to breed -- 12 
children so that 2 survive to sustain a clan system -- may only arise where/when 
there is a surfeit of energy available. It is (merely) one expression of energy 
glut. It will correct itself in time ... fluff of many sorts will dissipate in 
the entropic decline of the post-hydrocarbon world.

jh

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