When the industrial revolution came about, both intellectuals and laymen alike became completely posessed by the idea of *the machine*. Whether as a looming threat or romantic myth of liberation and prosperous future. It became an obsession of a fundamental new societal shift.
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We, instead, failed to deal with the Internet in the same fashion because it doesn’t have a shape. It can’t possess the folk with the same intellectual strenght because it’s like a ghost, even though its implications were immense and beyond anyone’s comprehension.
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Surely there has been a great deal of speculation, dystopia and myth about computers (which have a shape) but not really about the Internet (which has not). Yet it’s the Internet that will continue to have the deepest ramifications in the way our culture is shaped.
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The industrial revolution managed to radically change the fundamentals of society. The Internet, on the other hand, accomplished no less than *creating an entirely new meta-society* within society. With the same fervor of the XXth century one would expect to see [...]
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[...] art start dealing with nothing but the internet, radically changing its domain of enquiry and shapes, architecture, design, and so on. Yet in truth we mantained the exact same cultural coordinates of postmodernity as emerged between ‘68 and the end of the past century.
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Our culture is still fundamentally postmodern (just on crack) and art - at least mainstream art- is stationery in the exact same paradigm that emerged after modern art’s demise where a pile of stinking socks is more glorified than any piece of actually *new* art.
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I wonder why this failure of imagination, at the dawn of a tremendous new leap of modernity (utterly impossible to materialize without the Internet) is just ascribable to the narrative of mistrust of the myth of technology after WWII, postmodern slumber, or whether the fact that-
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- the Internet is fundamentally shapeless played a key role in the failure of the Internet to redefine the cultural coordinates of our society. Perhaps a fine example of how much visual culture is actually relevant.
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