He suggests that new systems of access and distribution will link directly to shopping mall experiences. The key element that will set the tone for political involvement is a displacement of consciousness onto the net. Eric reminds us that people still think of the net as an underground space of unaccountability. A fire burned quickly across the forum, engaging the issue of agency, accountability, and the intersection of online and offline space. Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger replied that the borderlines between aesthetics and ethics have to be renegotiated and reattuned again and again.
Everyday art fails a little.
In the testimonial, Greg writes, the fire explains the consultant. The goal is to close the gap between positivistic consultants and the cultural-political dimension of problems. Olu Oguibe found Clifford's post striking, and added that several years ago, the scholar Ali Mazrui wrote a novel in which he dealt with the artist caught between the aesthetic calling and the demands of commitment. Mazrui lamented the premature death of his friend, the poet Christopher Okigbo, who at the very verge of his glory laid down his pen and took the gun alongside the persecuted of Biafra, only to die at the front at the age of 36. Carlos believes that the net could provide the means of developing these kinds of systems, and that this is one of its most interesting political aspects.