SUPERCONVERSATIONS DAY 84: TOM MCGLYNN RESPONDS TO MCKENZIE WARK, “THE VECTORALIST CLASS”
#Actually Something Worse: History Cannot Be Imagined
Badiou’s Hand, Photograph by Tom McGlynn.
For my response to McKenzie Wark’s essay, “ The Vectoralist Class”, I decided to do a form of détournement in order to break open what I sense to be the hieratic syntactical structure of the essay a bit and reconfigure aspects of it in a not exactly random operation, keeping the perhaps more discursive voice of a distracted reader in mind. All of the text of my response is taken from Wark’s essay. Extracting information in this way from a highly constructed text, I intend to affectively comment on, yet not be deterministically alloyed to the text. A question the process might raise is: How can one conceive of addressing any imagined class that has as its radical purpose a seemingly-perpetual repositioning of lines of interest in order to most effectively capitalize on, or even “monetize” free thought?
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In sum then, in many instances the key class is then constrained and channeled and gradually became essentially a set of fully private property rights: patents, copyrights and brands. The labor at the processing site becomes difficult. Under what conditions could it be said perhaps there’s more? Historical fables of the information society, this was the underside, to route flows of materials around potential blockages. It eventually undoes the the the the the the the the the historical tendency, rebranded as disruption.
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I read as a failed attempt. It rarely means owns of production anymore. I read as a failed attempt, through unequal exchanges of information. To curtail the power of a rising vector, but mostly by trying to gain access to information, them selves for to control. If firm doing processing demands too much in profits, switch to another. Even among those who have paid close attention to differences, vaporized into a new, rather more gaseous state, historical change is a matter, which is in fixed supply.
Tom McGlynn is a New York based artist, critic, and independent curator whose work is represented in MoMA and the Whitney Museum.