Art & Globalisation (Globalization)
Many discussions on globalisation and it's relation to the art world seem to get bogged down in the good vs bad scenario: for example, the artist is able to find far reaching resources for reference; however he/she losses the connection to their sense of place. Following this course of enquiry is a zero sum game. We also loose focus to the real effect that globalisation has on our lives; that is, the way we think.
Today we think quick, we think with facts and we think through reference rather than empirical evaluation. With globalisation and the free market, which is the cause to the effect, we become more and more aware to the existence and creation of complicated systems. Hyper connected systems like the internet and even the way our food is created are blessed curses of the free market. Living in a complex network makes us think like complex networks, creating links that overlap, envelope and collapse [in which case the global financial crisis is the economic equivalent of a theory that tries to relate James Waldegraves first example of Game theory to the back catalogue of Sinead O'Conner, until you realise that Sinead O'Conner is bald by choice].
Now the internet is an aspect of globalisation and it came into fruition because of the free market [this can be argued], this is an example of a complex network inside a complex network, with those networks are other networks and within them are many more. Our world is far to complex to make sense of which is why we don't, we make bullet points in our mind and we search for the same type of system of knowledge allocation when we try and learn new things.
I don't know what I'm getting at, but I think it's quite safe and absolutely unreasonable to say: everything is everything and nothing really matters.
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