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emulator devs doing gods work out here fr and in addition to technical challenges there are also legal and political battles too :c all my homies hate nintendo

honestly it’s such a tragic question, because in some sense i don’t think there’s any true way to preserve anything. the conditions of observation are constantly changing, and often the art object itself is in flux at all times

this is more pronounced with physical art like paintings where you have to be incredibly intentional with elongating their life span, but i think it also applies to digital art as well

while it’s trivially true that even a copied file will not be truly “identical” (takes up a different space on a hard drive), that’s not terribly aesthetically relevant

but the context of the interpreter are always changing, and impossible to recreate. so preservation is a bit of a misnomer maybe, but approximation of a shared experience still carries great significance even if it can’t be perfect

and in some ways, i’m not sure i would want it to be perfect. the inability to replicate demands greater significance for each encounter. and the dissonance from prior experiences when revisiting a work is its own generative ground

ooh good thought experiment i think this brings out the difference. i suppose im very keen to diminish the role of a discrete ontological specification of an “art” object as such, and more keen on emphasizing the role of aesthetic interpretation and appreciation

so i agree it does sound rather odd to call a collection of clouds “art”, but if they’re playing the same role that other art objects do, i don’t care too much about whether it counts as art or not

i’m also extremely keen on diminishing the role of intentionality, both on the side of the artist and the interpreter. these can be of subsidiary sociological/anthropological interest, but don’t seem directly aesthetically relevant to me

or rather, they can be relevant if that influences an observers interpretation, but that isn’t a necessary condition

and yes i very much agree, labeling generative models as artistic is very silly lol, and i wouldn’t care to do this since i don’t really see the value in focusing on creators anyway.

that being said, im open to the possibility that an automated ai (no person selecting outcomes) could still produce objects capable of aesthetic appreciation - which colloquially seems to approximate what “art” means to people, but i don’t extremely care about the definition if that isn’t conflated

i mean we definitely agree on the conclusion of what action (not) to take, i just think we arrive there from very different starting places that lead to divergences elsewhere.

for example with ai art: so what if it doesn’t interpret anything colored by life experience? if a message is still received, then who cares if it didn’t intentionally communicate anything?

and even then it’s not clear that nothing is being communicated. cringey loser prompt engineers are still communicating something through the medium of ai art

haha thanks 😅 honestly i just started doing it for myself and somehow i spammed enough to get traction. in a lot of ways i'd prefer less attention to avoid copyright/community guidelines violations lol between scdl, bandcamp-dl, and songs-to-youtube on github its actually super simple!

most artists are actually incredibly appreciative, i get added on discord all the time with ppl thanking me and its really cozy. i don't interact too much with the "breakcore community" or whatever so its cozy. very occasionally ppl get angry with me but it's probably happened around 5 times total

this makes it sound like less of a headache than it is lol, i do get copyright takedowns and soundcloud dms and youtube comments every so often with irate people but shrug its not so bad

i do really love seeing the general youtube comments tho, adorable and wholesome lil guys

sorry for more ramble but another thing on talking w artists: one time a producer reached out thanking me for archiving because they deleted all their socials during a manic episode and my uploads were the only surviving copies, which i thought was sweet

oh no i just have a repost/archive channel where i reupload things i like from soundcloud/bandcamp/etc

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Human life is the story of the recurrent need to orient ourselves toward some imagined unity and the recurrent failure of our attempts to achieve it by construction. Seeing through this cycle no ...

i have really loved what i’ve heard so far, tysm (also side note wtf this discography is massive)

oooh who is it send pls

lol pretty much, that's just what youtube autocaptioning reads like

sorry for the subpar posting spam tonight bloomfies apparently that's my chosen method right now for a palliative remedy attempt for my pain: focusing my negative emotional energies into a creative project of fixation. even if the result is pathetic and ineffectual, the pragmatic role is significant

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btw in case anyones concerned im clean tn, just knew what to ctrl+f in the transcript

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Nietzsche lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 5/7

This is the last lecture series on Nietzsche given by Prof. Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge in 2013.

soupchi - never knew exactly what i wanted

willowJan 22, 2024

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We can say without fear of contradiction that some delusion/obsessive illusion has always gone ahead and illuminated the path to any large form of structuring of human communal life

idk this isn’t actually true, i just get self destructive urges and wanna externalize my pain. i don’t even mind the negative emotions themselves, i just moreso resent the fact that i don’t have the time available to wallow properly and let myself process them

*fast food documentary narrator voice* in todays fast paced economy consumers are demanding quick and convenient self harm options - whether it be cutting or alcoholism, burning or binging, this super mom can stop by for a quick fix between the office and susie’s soccer practice

i’m exceptionally bad at handling negative emotions in a healthy way

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the quote at the start of this chapter is actually quite nice. i like that geuss affirms the utopian impulse

sorry for being cringe i can’t turn it off

i did the thing the other day where i reposted something i liked for a little while and then took it down. gotta say, felt powerful. my page feels pure

yoink my brand now - i own all that i possess the strength to appropriate stirner etc

check the date darling, i was becoming a normie independent of your influence <3 unless u mean yw for me being on bsky at all, in which case grrrr yes true

wdym?

i’m kind of a crybaby for this but some people i work very closely with are getting their flexible work options taken away and listening to her talk about working on fridays and paying another thousand dollars a month in daycare was honestly kinda crushing.

yes getting the obvious out of the way: blah blah privilege blah blah she’s white and getting paid a shit ton anyway, the daycare is probably racist, her critique is oriented around a somewhat silly metric

but like that’s all irrelevant and comparative suffering is stupid. i fucking hate the abstract social domination of capital and the coercion and violence it inflicts. and the brutal and blunt particularity of this case being personal just makes me feel such despair.

in a lot of ways the very concrete concerns expressed make it all the more depressing. there exists this world-permeating system of subtle compulsion, and yet the main thing you can focus on is daycare.

i ate in front of someone today

still haven’t sorted out my feelings about it