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New Art-Historical Period

by psst, 01.15.06 07:56 pm

I'd like to propose that the new Art-Historical Period be called
"Networkism." I looked on the internet a little and don't think it's been
proposed seriously yet. Google offers some odd findings of the term.

I think "Networkism" meets the criteria that rendered legitimate the
previous two terms: Romanticism and Modernism. Also, the three are each
spaced one hundred years apart, i.e., 1798, 1898, and 1998, give or take a
couple of years.

I'd also like to claim credit for being the first to propose this new
art-historical period if in fact I am the first to do so. If not, I'd like
to second or affirm whoever was first.

Best regards,

Max Herman



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Re: New Art-Historical Period

by palindrome, 01.16.06 05:50 pm

Coco Fusco takes a critical look at the "spatialist" lingo of "networkism"
(my terms, not Fusco's). The "network" discourse of "[t]erms such as
'mapping,' 'borders,' 'hacking,' 'trans-nationalism,' 'identity as spatial,'
and so on" (I would add "transgressing"), she cautions, "accords strategic
primacy to space and simultaneously downplays timeA