Dear Sissies, how are all of you? Just want to let you all know that I’m working with www.gobadlands.io to create a new home for our community. It will work just like Tumblr but it will be completely NSFW friendly. Please check it out and let’s rebuild the Sissy community over there. Thanks :).
Pe is a Swiss born artist based in Berlin and Zurich.
Moving Objects | N˚ 804 is one of several innovative art machines commissioned by ZERO1 in San Jose, California. (ZERO1 is a contemporary art event that presents and supports artists who work with art and technology.)
His kinetic art is mind-blowing. I feel this tension in my head while watching the slow interaction of cords being pushed and pulled. Made of cords, various mechanical parts, motor, actuators and/or magnets, he constructs these machines that evoke the understanding of forces and reaction.
“Marguerite Walitier / Vive La France 12 Aout 1918″
A Canadian soldier from the 1st Machine Gun Battalion shows off a large zucchini which was presented to the Prince of Wales. Photo taken in Valenciennes, France in October, 1918.
“A 24/7 environment has the semblance of a social world, but it is actually a non-social model of machinic performance and a suspension of living that does not disclose the human cost required to sustain its effectiveness. It must be distinguished from what Lukács and others in the early twentieth century identified as the empty, homogenous time of modernity, the metric or calendar time of nations, of finance or industry, from which individual hopes or projects were excluded. What is new is the sweeping abandonment of the pretense that time is coupled to any long-term undertakings, even to fantasies of “progress” or development. An illuminated 24/7 world without shadows is the final capitalist mirage of post-history, of an exorcism of the otherness that is the motor of historical change.”
Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (London: Verso, 2013), p.9
