http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/ 'On the Genealogy of Morals']]> en-us thoughtfactory@internode.on.net Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:16:21 +0930 http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/john-tagg-on-do.html In his Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning Jonathan Tagg refers to the issue of documentary photography. He argues that there can be no more talk of a continuous documentary tradition grounded on the non-manipulative use of this camera’s supposed natural properties. ...if there is a link... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/art-history-soc.html In the Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning Jonathan Tagg refers to returning to the vague topography that came to be so confidently colonized as “the New Art History.” In the mid-1970s in Britain, however, this uneven terrain seemed less like a consolidated territorythan a scattering of... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/grateful-dead-h.html The Grateful Dead perform Uncle John's Band during the famed Halloween show at Radio City 10-31-80. An MP3 file of the concert. A video of Franklin's Tower from the same concert can be found in an earlier post. The Radio City Music Hall in New York is located in the... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/cloud-culture.html Charles Leadbeater in Cloud Culture: the future of global cultural relations for the British Council says that the combination of mass self-expression, ubiquitous participation and constant connection is creating cloud culture, formed by our seemingly never-ending capacity to make and share culture in images, music, text and film. The rise... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/lessig-on-the-w.html In Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy Lawrence Lessig argues that copyright is, critically important to a healthy culture. Properly balanced, he says, it is essential to inspiring certain forms of creativity. Without it, we would have a much poorer culture. With it, at least properly... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/03/california-saga.html I didn't know much about the Beach Boys' Holland album (1973) other than this was their last creative effort before they collapsed into a oldies/nostalgia band and that Brian Wilson had become merely a shadow presence. This is one track from the album by Al Jarden. It sounds okay. It... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/02/andrew-ross-pho.html Andrew Ross is an extraordinarily localised artist, whose body of work has largely focused on his immediate environs of Wellington, New Zealand. He photographs a disappearing city. Andrew Ross, Lyall Bay, Wellington Ross does photograph outside Wellington: Andrew Ross, Tui Brewery, Mangatainoka, North Island... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/barbara-c-mensc.html Barbara Mensch is best known for her photographs of the old Fulton Fish Market, to which two books have been devoted. She has also photographed the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly 30 years. Barbara C Mensch, "Waterfalls 1," 2008 From windows facing west and from the roof of her loft, Mensch... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/apples-ipad.html I tried to find a live video feed of Apple's launch of the iPad in San Francisco early this morning but there was none working. Twitter, however, was full on and I followed the live blogs of the event. Is there actually room for a multitouch screen tablet device between... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/a-kodak-culture.html In A Life More Photographic in Photographies (March 2008) Daniel Rubinstein and Katrina Sluis say about an online digital Kodak or Nokia photographic culture that: The distribution and sharing of snapshots online highlights a paradoxical condition that characterizes snapshot photography: it is both ubiquitous and hidden. Since the beginning of... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/clement-greenbe.html Clement Greenberg's late Homemade Aesthetics (circa 1971)--roughly the time of the Conceptual Art movement----rests upon upon the substantial body of his earlier work. One of the assumption of this body of work was his claim about aesthetic judgments and the nature of taste. Greenberg held that taste was involuntary and... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/art-and-the-com.html In Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation in October Vol. 12 (Spring, 1980) Robert Morris says: The production of art works in this late industrial age has for the most part been circumscribed and structured by the commodity market. Beyond this, most artistic careers follow the contours of a consumer-oriented... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/bowie-diamond-d.html I've always had a soft spot for David Bowie's post Ziggy Stardust title track from his Diamond Dogs album. Thgis Bowie the rocker. The album, the last wheeze of Bowie's glam rock period, is not much as a 1984 concept album. However, —“Diamond Dogs” along with a “Rebel Rebel”—have all... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/the-conjunction.html I see that Steven Shaviro at The Pinocchio Theory argues for the relevance of the beautiful rather than the sublime (and Kant’s “Analytic of the Beautiful” in the Third Critique. He reverses the postmodern preference for sublime over the beautiful by privileging beauty over the sublime. So what is meant... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2010/01/photographic-cr-1.html As we have seen in an earlier post Sontag's early formalist position was that the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. n a culture...