Hello and welcome to my blog about my forthcoming book on Atropos Press "Gratitude for Technology" in which I will explain why and in what respects I think we should be grateful for the amazing stuff this webpage, for example, is made of.
From the text on the back cover:
Gratitude for technology is not gratitude to something or someone in particular, but first and foremost, a simple conscious resonance of acknowledgement and appreciation for a history of collaborative human relations which has produced the support for the technologised lives we are able to enjoy today.
In this text, Gottlieb proposes a mimeolography, a syntax of human forms, as a way to convey, image and model these constellations of human interaction across history in an audio-visual media 'objet philosophique' for the contemplation and concentration of gratitude.
so, the book is theory and an art project at the same time...applied philosophy and philosophical applications. I'll be back here as soon as get some new about the progress with the printing.
cover of my new book on ATROPOS press
Gratitude for Technology
A Comprehensive Approach to Congo’s Conflict Minerals
Read this pdf from Enough! An American initiative to end genocide and atrocities. It is not perfect, and these things seem to obligatorily smack of neo-colonialism at times, but there is a lot of good information and an occaisional very strong statements, such as:
"... consumers and their elected representatives have the opportunity to decisively alter the dynamics of conflict in the Great Lakes Region by finally focusing international attention on the economic drivers of this human rights catastrophe. By demanding transparency and accountability from the world’s largest electronics companies, consumers can fundamentally change the logic of Congo’s conflict and end the scourge of conflict minerals."
Summerlab Showcase Catalog
with a short feature on iMine and an article I wrote on mobile art, in English y Castellano
New Flusser DVD out
with subtitles in 7 languages, much quoted in this blog
Process as Paradigm
new catalogue for an show on processual art at LABoral in Gijon, Spain. My text istarts on page 123
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works referenced in Gratitude for Technology
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