NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT

Reading List #2

Interactive element, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Think Like Clouds, e-book, 2013. Badlands Unlimited.

• Writers writing about Substack on Substack – a new thing to complain about! I mostly agree. I do wish these people would reflect upon vintage forms of blogging, or, like, the modernist kleine Form instead. For my part, I’ll say that I’m enjoying the platform’s bloggier capacities, and so will continue to post these Reading Lists at least weekly, alongside more considered pieces of writing, hopefully every other week.

• What was post-internet art? The question on many lips, because not everyone was an art student in Chicago the year seapunk broke. The definition appears to expand or contract at will: does the term refer to a clique of artists centered around The Jogging or a dominant paradigm prior to 2017? A series of net art projects, indebted to genealogies of new media art, or an attempt to bring the internet’s particular vernacular into the IRL space of the gallery? A random assortment of pe…