Networkism and Religion

Networkism also relates to religion. As an example, if one looks at the
city or polis as an example of a network, and religion as related to art,
then you can evaluate St. Augustine's "City of God" as comparable to
"Network of Art" for both its recommendations about personal conduct and
group organization.

Another interesting comparison is how people expect to be paid for art and
religion, respectively.

As I stated earlier, it's logical that there will be no money in working on
a new art-historical period before it is widely accepted i.e. while it is
still being formulated, defined, and articulated. The old one will be the
one with the dollar value attached, even if the new one is the better
mousetrap. This has always been the way in fact. But as time goes on
people feel that the money spent on the worn-out period is less and less
worth it, and look for an alternative, such as one can see in the case of
the Impressionists. At first they were completely disregarded and now they
are worth lots and lots.

Religion and Economics are also definitely related, so High Networkism is
also about lots of networks getting fused and intertwined together due to
globalization and other informational developments.



>From: Lee Wells <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Lee Wells <[email protected]>
>To: Joseph Franklyn McElroy <[email protected]>, Jim Andrews
><[email protected]>
>CC: Rhizome <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Networkism and Heroism
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:06:44 -0400
>
>Gotta pay the rent somehow and I bet most of the people listening would
>sell
>out in a second if given the opportunity. The problem is that most NM
>artists or artists in general do not have market appeal. It is not heroic
>to
>starve to death in the 21st century. Compared to other fields of study the
>art world is easy in fact decadent for all of us. It is heroic to stand up
>for what you believe in and face death. Its honorable to dig ditches as
>long
>as the digger considers it to be.
>
>Art Theory Contexts
>http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/art-theory-intro.html
>
>
> > From: Joseph Franklyn McElroy <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: Joseph Franklyn McElroy <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:29:16 -0400
> > To: Jim Andrews <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Networkism and Heroism
> >
> > Jim Andrews wrote
> >> The new and improved is sales talk. A culture of salespeople. A culture
>of
> >> hucksters. A culture of game players. A culture trained in moronics. A
> >> culture of soldiers. A culture of killers. Shitheads in the wilderness.
> >> Language and criticism as weapons, not toward understanding.
> >>
> > Equating sales with killing is a ridiculous step to take. Everyone has
> > to sell, even those taking an anti-sales stance are selling their
> > position. Sales encompasses much more than the "common" misconception
> > of the guy in a striped coat and straw hat. Not only that, I think you
> > are really misunderstanding the difference between sales and marketing -
> > since we exist more in a "culture of marketing people" than in a
> > :"culture of sales people". It is the difference between attraction and
> > conversion.
> >
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