It's a Man's Man's Man's World - Review: Sonic Acts day 1

It's a Man's Man's Man's World - Review: Sonic Acts day 1.

New Review by Nathan Jones.

The first day of the Sonic Acts festival featured some of the most prominent men in philosophy, electronic music and sound art today, including OOO practitioners Graham Harman and Tim Morton, M.E.S.H., Vessel Florian Hecker and Reza Negarestani. Nathan Jones attended this day for Furtherfield.

"Trans-gender theorist Jami Weinstein has compared the flocking behaviour of academics and artists around the concept of The Anthropocene, to the adoption by the Hipster of a given locale or fashion appendage. The creative flock, she suggests, can perform a gentrification of concept through uncritical adoption and ‘hyper-consumption’, just as it does of neighbourhoods or workwear. The Anthropocene is indeed the place to be seen, or the guise in which to dress the body of your work, this season. The term is proposed as a way of describing the explicit ‘age’ in which human kind, post-1945 (although possibly since the Industrial Revolution, or stretching right back to the advent of tool use), has come to define the geophysics of the entire earth."

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/its-mans-mans-mans-world-review-sonic-acts-day-1