Re: <nettime> 3 or 4 good links on NFTs

["Ted Byfield" <tedbyfield@gmail.com>]

Tacticalmediasplained!

On 27 Apr 2021, at 5:52, d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote:

> > But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more 
> > compelling than all
> > of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
> > relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and 
> > stale,'
> > it's time for a rethink.
>
>
> I found Ted's list of articles is very useful (thanks). Particularly 
> Emily
> Ratajkowski's extraordinary text 'The Cut' on her struggle to regain
> control of her own image. And the wider exasperated challenge for us 
> to
> work harder to break out of our cognitive and political confinement is 
> well
> taken.
>
> So in this spirit I suggest that the process should start by 
> acknowledging that
> reducing Ratajkowski's brilliant essay to "supermodel doing tactical 
> media..'is
> really "not ok" (at least give her name!).
>
> Apart from also being a serious actor and a fine essayist Ratajkowski 
> also studied
> fine art at UCLA. Her article makes clear that this education meant 
> that her encounter
> with Richard Prince's work was mediated through her knowledge of its 
> Warholian ethos
> (and as it later turned out she was able to use her erudition to 
> diagnose an acute
> moral vacuum).
>
> So my point is that there is more than a hint of a further step in a 
> process of
> 'objectifying' Ratajkowski going on in Ted's commentary. So yes 
> agreed, less
> 'pale, male and stale' please.
>
> David Garcia
>
> > (1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily
> > Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll
> >
> > 	Jacob Kastrenakes
> > 	Apr 24, 2021
> >
> > https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince
> >
> > 	👉🏼 note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a 
> > model
> > own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020)
> >
> > 		https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html
> >
> > (2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
> > 	Dean Kissick
> > 	(n.d.)
> >
> > https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick
> >
> > (3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist
> > 	Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman
> > 	April 14, 2021
> >
> > https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html
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