Thenextlayer.org (TNL) was started two years ago with the aim of providing an open-content platform for collaborative research that works around notions of “open source methodologies”. It invites artists and researchers to not only share finished products such as well polished essays but to engage in an exchange of ideas at an earlier level, to share also their links and footnotes, their bibliographies, images and audio and to allow close as well as weak-link collaborations. Using the free and open source software drupal, TNL has evolved into a system defined by its users whereby the development of the platform itself is also a shared process with emergent properties. Undertaking currently a practice based PhD at Goldsmiths, Digital Studios, the work on TNL has allowed me to find a context for my work and to get close feedback from others.
The work on theoretic aspects of my PhD has led me on to a path where I need to gain an understanding of the transitions and transformations described by terms such as Post-Fordism, a term which reflects changes in the way that capitalism operates which happened over the past 30 to 40 years. Those changes were made possible by digital technologies and electronic networks, yet technology is not the sole determining factor. That same period was also characterised by the ascent of post-modern theories, the neo-liberal ideology in the political arena and the rise and collapse of financial markets. Methodological reflection led me to understand that the question of media art or digital art can not be dealt with properly if it remains isolated from those historic currents. Paradoxically, while the age of Post-Fordism saw a steady increase in the prominence of media theories, it appears to me that a more broadly integrated theory of ’media’ which takes into account the political economy is still largely absent. A new project has emerged on TNL which adresses this deficiency by working out a shared model of technopolitical paradigm change within which the question of the media is put forward, related to social struggles / agency, forms of self-organisation and other indeterministic forces.
http://www.thenextlayer.org
Thenextlayer.org (TNL) was started two years ago with the aim of providing an open-content platform for collaborative research that works around notions of “open source methodologies”. It invites artists and researchers to not only share finished products such as well polished essays but to engage in an exchange of ideas at an earlier level, to share also their links and footnotes, their bibliographies, images and audio and to allow close as well as weak-link collaborations. Using the free and open source software drupal, TNL has evolved into a system defined by its users whereby the development of the platform itself is also a shared process with emergent properties. Undertaking currently a practice based PhD at Goldsmiths, Digital Studios, the work on TNL has allowed me to find a context for my work and to get close feedback from others.
The work on theoretic aspects of my PhD has led me on to a path where I need to gain an understanding of the transitions and transformations described by terms such as Post-Fordism, a term which reflects changes in the way that capitalism operates which happened over the past 30 to 40 years. Those changes were made possible by digital technologies and electronic networks, yet technology is not the sole determining factor. That same period was also characterised by the ascent of post-modern theories, the neo-liberal ideology in the political arena and the rise and collapse of financial markets. Methodological reflection led me to understand that the question of media art or digital art can not be dealt with properly if it remains isolated from those historic currents. Paradoxically, while the age of Post-Fordism saw a steady increase in the prominence of media theories, it appears to me that a more broadly integrated theory of ’media’ which takes into account the political economy is still largely absent. A new project has emerged on TNL which adresses this deficiency by working out a shared model of technopolitical paradigm change within which the question of the media is put forward, related to social struggles / agency, forms of self-organisation and other indeterministic forces.
http://www.thenextlayer.org
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by Armin Medosch at Post-Flux day 2
Thenextlayer.org (TNL) was started two years ago with the aim of providing an open-content platform for collaborative research that works around notions of “open source methodologies”. It invites artists and researchers to not only share finished products such as well polished essays but to engage in an exchange of ideas at an earlier level, to share also their links and footnotes, their bibliographies, images and audio and to allow close as well as weak-link collaborations. Using the free and open source software drupal, TNL has evolved into a system defined by its users whereby the development of the platform itself is also a shared process with emergent properties. Undertaking currently a practice based PhD at Goldsmiths, Digital Studios, the work on TNL has allowed me to find a context for my work and to get close feedback from others.
The work on theoretic aspects of my PhD has led me on to a path where I need to gain an understanding of the transitions and transformations described by terms such as Post-Fordism, a term which reflects changes in the way that capitalism operates which happened over the past 30 to 40 years. Those changes were made possible by digital technologies and electronic networks, yet technology is not the sole determining factor. That same period was also characterised by the ascent of post-modern theories, the neo-liberal ideology in the political arena and the rise and collapse of financial markets. Methodological reflection led me to understand that the question of media art or digital art can not be dealt with properly if it remains isolated from those historic currents. Paradoxically, while the age of Post-Fordism saw a steady increase in the prominence of media theories, it appears to me that a more broadly integrated theory of ’media’ which takes into account the political economy is still largely absent. A new project has emerged on TNL which adresses this deficiency by working out a shared model of technopolitical paradigm change within which the question of the media is put forward, related to social struggles / agency, forms of self-organisation and other indeterministic forces.
http://www.thenextlayer.org