what do you see reflected in that puddle of oil?

Not If But When: Culture Beyond Oil

What the Sugababes can tell us about the internal workings of the iPhone

A never-ending reconfiguring and patching of parts.

The materiality of something is then definable only by a ‘sense’ – we may sense it’s concept, it’s idea.  This exists immaterially and is passed from one to another.  There is a constant found in its multiple form as incarnations of an idea, no matter how things are transmuted, arranged or appear.

‘Take the iPhone. Behind its quiet formal resolution and intuitive interface is a raging storm of lawsuits and counterfilings as vicious and contested as a Temptations reunion. Its substance is a patchwork of copyrights and patents, and multiple manufacturers that can be swapped in and out. Just as Theseus’s boat could remain constant as an idea, regardless of its material substance, the contemporary technological object exists first as an idea almost regardless of its multiple and shifting components.’

globish

‘English is the common language of the international abstraction that is known as the artworld.. English is the main vehicle of communication and discourse around art – criticism, press releases, artist statements.’

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/do-you-speak-english/