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Poloblogg: Internet in review

Net.art as the Dadaism of the present era of digitization

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Poloblogg, by the experimental Swedish design group Jossystem, is an experimental textual automation engine in the form of a blog.
Like with Dadaist experimentation and deconstruction of the means of textual and pictorial production in the 1910s and 20s, web experiments like the Poloblogg can serve as a form of radical questioning of what lies before us today, in a digitized environment.
Swedish blogger Rasmus Fleischer mentions how the German critical non-governmental organisation a.s. ambulanzen’s remixed version of Walter Benjamin’s famous essay “The Work of Art in the Epoch of its Technical Reproducibility” replaces “Dadaism” for “Net.art” and thus makes a minimal yet wonderful modulation in order to make Benjamin’s text a “phenomenal description of today’s conflicts around intellectual property”.
Walter Benjamin (the a.s. ambulanzen remix):

“Net.art” attempted to create by pictorial — and literary — means the effects which the public today seeks in file-sharing. Every fundamentally new, pioneering creation of demands will carry beyond its goal. Net.art did so to the extent that it sacrificed the market values which are so characteristic of cultural goods [...]. Their poems were “word salad” containing obscenities and every imaginable waste product of language. The same is true of their web sites, on which they mounted buttons and counters. What they intended and achieved was a relentless destruction of the aura of their creations, which they branded as reproductions with the very means of production.



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What is this meant to achieve? 

“Word salad” is a symptom of Wernicke’s aphasia: after stroke or motor accidents which damage a part of the brain, people speak in just this way. 

Damage to the frontal lobes also produces “obscenities and every imaginable waste product of language”. 

But nobody pretends that these tragic by-products of individual disasters are art. 

Personally, I reckon that the effect produced by random wordplay is not life-enhancing, but life-denying.  It mimics the destruction of what it means to be human, not its celebration.  It is, surely, a dead end.  And it is not even original.  Can we really do no better eighty years on, than ape the Dadaists?  If so maybe as a society we are, truly, brain-dead. 

Or have I missed the point, and is all this actually a clever parody of fashionable psychobabble and crappy, pretentious sociology-speak?  If so, it is utterly, utterly brilliant!


Posted by Rory



Sorry Rory but Poloblogg isn’t meant to achieve anything…


Posted by claes of jossystem



Fair enough Claes, if it’s only a bit of fun then I’m up for it.  Heaven knows we could do with a bit more harmless fun in the world!


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