From 891768e0eac769108958a8bce8ea0ddb3eefa442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomislav Medak Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 13:00:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add 'content/shard/metadatapunk.md' --- content/shard/metadatapunk.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/shard/metadatapunk.md diff --git a/content/shard/metadatapunk.md b/content/shard/metadatapunk.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0d5bba --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/metadatapunk.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ ++++ +title = "'Metadata Punk'" +glassblowers = ["mckenziewark.md"] ++++ + +> Monoskop and UbuWeb are tactics for intervening in three kinds of practices, those of the art-world, of publishing and of scholarship. They respond to the current institutional, technical and political-economic constraints of all three. As it says in the *Communist Manifesto*, the forces for social change are those that ask the property question. While *détournement* was a sufficient answer to that question in the era of the culture industries, they try to formulate, in their modest way, a suitable tactic for answering the property question in the era of the vulture industries. + +> This takes the form of moving from data to metadata, expressed in the form of the move from writing to publishing, from art-making to curating, from research to archiving. Another way of thinking this, suggested by Hiroki Azuma would be the move from narrative to database. The object of critical attention acquires a third dimension, a kind of informational depth. The objects before us are not just a text or an image but databases of potential texts and images, with metadata attached. + +— McKenzie Wark, "Metadata Punk", *Public Library*, edited by Tomislav Medak and Mars Marcell, 111–20. Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015. \ No newline at end of file