Ted Byfield on Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:42:16 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> 3 or 4 good links on NFTs


Tacticalmediasplained!

On 27 Apr 2021, at 5:52, d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote:

But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all
of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,'
it's time for a rethink.


I found Ted's list of articles is very useful (thanks). Particularly Emily
Ratajkowski's extraordinary text 'The Cut' on her struggle to regain
control of her own image. And the wider exasperated challenge for us to work harder to break out of our cognitive and political confinement is well
taken.

So in this spirit I suggest that the process should start by acknowledging that reducing Ratajkowski's brilliant essay to "supermodel doing tactical media..'is
really "not ok" (at least give her name!).

Apart from also being a serious actor and a fine essayist Ratajkowski also studied fine art at UCLA. Her article makes clear that this education meant that her encounter with Richard Prince's work was mediated through her knowledge of its Warholian ethos (and as it later turned out she was able to use her erudition to diagnose an acute
moral vacuum).

So my point is that there is more than a hint of a further step in a process of 'objectifying' Ratajkowski going on in Ted's commentary. So yes agreed, less
'pale, male and stale' please.

David Garcia


(1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily
Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll

	Jacob Kastrenakes
	Apr 24, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince

👉🏼 note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a model
own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020)

		https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

(2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
	Dean Kissick
	(n.d.)

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick

(3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist
	Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman
	April 14, 2021

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html
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