Do you remember the New Aesthetic? No, me neither, but it did prefigure so much of the computer vision, datamining and militarized surveillance that characterises living with technology today. (Once an algorithm Now a footnote in Amazon’s vast infrastructure of labour exploitation). “Eruptions of the digital into the physical” is a line I particularly remember, making me long for deliverance or a time when there was a comfortable sentiment of there being any difference between the two.
- Rahel Aima