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'''– Que reste-t-il à ton sens aujourd’hui des vagues d’utopie qui ont secoué – et largement participé à constituer – le développement d’Internet ? Les possibilités d’interaction offertes par cette plateforme pour des interventions artistiques engagées ont-elles changé avec le « web 2.0 »?'''

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in the in-between

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go to the in-between

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living in the in-between

Cyberbetics goes hybrid. it feeds itself with the language of difference: part-human/part-machine/part-code. Cybernetics is the borderlands.[...]

Information technology (IT) works to undermine confidence in the historical endurability of the human by presenting fascinating visions of a posthuman future, seductive because of its irony, indeterminacy and ambivalence.

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remix media theory

[Remix media theorist] are the enhanced data bodies of tomorrow. Never capable of living easily with nostalgia for technotopia nor content with political passivity in the midst of the informatics of domination which seeks to take possession of the body, the species, the planet - remix theorists are inhabitant of the liminal zone -that porous zone of transition in which every breath, every thought, every bit of creative energy is expended by trying to live freely in a world that would be binary. Living between the broken dreams of technotopia and the powerful forces driving the biotech future, remix theorists hinabit the in-between o creative intensities. Thinking critically about the informatics of domination has immunized them from both political passivity and wthical naivety.[...]

Three Remixes of Life in The Wires, Introduction to Life in the Wires, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, The CTheory reader, 2004

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1. Three Remixes of Life in The Wires, Introduction to Life in the Wires, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, The CTheory reader, 2004

Walter Benjamin: la fin de l’expertise (“L’Œuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproductibilité technique”, pp. 48-49)