Intimate Bureaucracies: A manifesto
PURPOSE:
DJ Readies starts out his piece by discussing participatory decentralization, or a mantra of art and political networks. He discuses how intimate bureaucracies are apparent oxymorons that are a set of strategically subversive maneuvers. He then connects them to the new mythology surrounding the WWW. He explains how it is a mix of cold impersonal systems and intimate social connections. He explains examples such as the artists from Madison (mIEKAL aND & Lyx Ish), and how they started a dreamtime village as alternative politics. He also goes in saying that intimate bureaucracies can exist on different scales. He talks about his book Networked Art and how sociopoetic is used to describe how artists perform and manipulate social interactions. He studies artists and how they have created intimate bureaucracies. He then goes into looking at smaller social systems and how they work. He looks at the aesthetics of connectedness, the focus of concrete enthusiasm, movement among the groups and willing manipulation of desire.
DEFINITIONS:
participatory decentralization: a mantra of art and political networks, express intimate bureaucratic form
intimate bureaucracies; monitor the pulse of society of the spectual and the corporatized bureaucies. Have no demands, no singular ideology, no righteous path. Apparent oxymorons, set of strat subversive maneuvers.
mIEKAL aND & lyx Ish: madison artists who started a Dreamtime village. It wasn’t a business or gov performance masquerading as performance art, and it wasn’t mocking business or government procedures. Instead, it was an emergence of alternative politics.
myths: function as windows framing and mediating our view of the world around us
sapates: What the spanish refer to as a diamond in a lemon-springs the possiblity of methodology for the study of cultural and media intervention
OWS: occupy wall street; might suggest a conflict against the large-ideoloical fossil fueling burning car
the society of the instant: produces 24/7 news flashes, rapid summaries, counter arguments, etc -want demands
sociopoetic: describes the use of social situations or social networks as a a canvas-describes the works studied
intimacy: the close familiarity of friendship or love-depends on small-scale system of communication
new social system: instead of impersonal production and consumption,people join togethe only in groups of common enthusiams
a structurally necessitated bureaucracy: any administrative and governing body probably works to assure citizens that they can meet the specific groups needs
fluxus: Fluxus.org: was intended first as the name of public experiment, and then later as a social experiment. The goal was to purge the art world of artists and creatives.
QUESTIONS:
- Has the internet and email beaten the car as a model for ideology for american citizens today in 2015?
- What is an example of sociopoetics in today’s world (other than Fluxus)?
