Miltos Manetas really seems be working towards a reflection of the iPod and Nintendo generation. He’s trying to address the way people live with technology in both sensual and intellectual ways. I really look forward to seeing more of his work.

To me, the current zeitgeist is really wonderful. It’s cyborg, biomech, green, organic, technical, mechanical, chaotic and systemic. It’s a bit like everything that exists in our culture and politics – an experimental gray area, contrary and polarized. So it feels appropriate to use tools that can help create these things for us – a further extension of our cyborg brains and bodies.

We just launched a brand new site for our good friend Kerry over at Red Shoe Clothing. Get the full-on experience right here. Check out more of the identity after the jump.

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Pulled off of Arkitip’s excellent new site.

Sylvère Lotringer, 2003
WITH MIKE EDISON

Sylvère changed intellectual life in America by introducing French critical theorists such as jean Baudrillard through his homegrown imprint, semiotext(e). His latest effort, Crepuscular Dawn, is an extended conversation with the philosopher Paul Virilio.

MIKE: One of the ideas you discuss with Paul Virilio is that, while McLuhan said, “the medium is the message,” it’s not just the medium anymore. It’s the speed of the medium that is significant now. Velocity actually becomes the message.
SYLVÈRE: Right. Well, first of all, McLuhan had a very optimistic vision of the world. He thought that the world would become a global village, that we would all communicate, and in spite of our differences, that the medium was going to unite us. But instead of becoming active, we are all stuck at home with our telephones, our computers, our faxes, and the internet. We have all these prostheses, as if we somehow became disabled. We are prisoners of the technology. And the medium itself, which is only electronic transmissions, is also changing us.

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We just finished the group page for Target Facebook here at Sevnthsin. A lot of the wonderful illustration was done by Colin Strandberg over at The Worksteady.

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