| DIGITAL LANDSCAPE |
| IT CAN BE SAID THAT WE FORM OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, KNOWLEDGE – IDENTITY IN RELATIONSHIP TO OUR ENVIRONMENT . ONE OF OUR MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS, MANUEL DE LANDA REFERS TO THIS RELATIONSHIP IN HIS DISCOURSE “ THE GEOLOGY OF MORALS” . IN THIS ARTICLE DE LANDA REFERS TO A MODEL PROPOSED BY DELEUZE / GUATTARI , WHERE THE “ABSTRACT MACHINE OF STRATIFICATION” NOT ONLY EXHISTS IN THE WORLD OF GEOLOGY, BUT ALSO IN THE ORGANIC AND HUMAN WORLDS.TO THIS MODEL OF STRATIFICATION I WOULD ADD THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF THE INTERNET TERRITORIES THAT WE NAVIGATE EACH DAY. WHAT THESE ENVIRONMENTS HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY CONSTITUTE A MAP AND THIS MAP IS OPEN AND CONNECTABLE IN ALL OF ITS DIMENSIONS. THE CHARACTER OF THIS MAP IS HETEROGEOUS AND NON-LINEAR (STRATIFICATIONS).DIGITAL LANDSCAPE IS AN APPEALING PROJECT TO ME BECAUSE OF STAVANGER IN THE 21 CENTURY. STAVANGER HAS IN A SHORT SEQUENCE EMERGED FROM A HOMOGENEOUS / PIETISTICAL AND PROVINCIAL SARDINE CAPITAL TO A GLOBAL PRODUCER OF ENERGY AND FISH FARMING PRODUCTS. IN ESSENCE STAVANGER AND HER POPULATION HAVE ENTERED THE HETEROGENEOUS GLOBAL MARKET ECONOMY THAT IS GOVERNED BY WHAT DE LANDA REFERS TO AS A CULTURAL MESHWORK. “THUS AS SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, BIOLOGICAL SPECIES AND SOCIAL HIERARCHIES ARE ALL PARTICULAR CASES OF A STRATIFIED SYSTEM, SO IGENEOUS ROCKS, ECOSYSTEMS AND MARKET ARE SELF CONSISTENT AGGREGATES (MESHWORKS) ; THE RESULT OF COMING TOGETHER AND INTERLOCKING OF HETEROGENEOUS ELEMENTS.
THIS HETEROGENEOUS (INTER-DEPENDENT) LANDSCAPE THAT I AM ILLUSTRATING BECOMES OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE CONSIDERING THE EPIDEMIC EUROPE IS PRESENTLY EXPERIENCING IN THE FORM OF MAD COW DISEASE / HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE ; WHICH REPRESENTS THE DIRECT OPPOSITE OF A MESHWORK. IT REPRESENTS A LINEAR AND HOMOEGENOUS CORPORATE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY THAT HAS COWS FEEDING ON COWS IN A CANNIBALISTIC RITUAL THAT HAS FORMED A HOMOGENEOUS AND END GAME SCENEARIO. DIGITAL LANDSCAPE REPRESENTS ONE ARTISTIC DIGITAL MOVE (MOVEMENT OVER FORM) IN WHICH THE ROMANTIC AND MODERN INTREPERTATION OF THE CRUST OF THE EARTH SURFACE (JÆRMALERI) HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY ELECTRONIC SEISMIC (STRATIFICATIONS) AND “REPAINTED” ON MY COMPUTER. MY METAPHORIC ATTEMPT HERE IS TO WELCOME STAVANGER INTO THE DIGITAL AGE AS WE SAY GOOD BYE TO THE MECHANICAL AGE . |