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# 65
Field Guide to Skirmology: Handbook for the Skirmonaut
Tavi Meraud
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Who is the Skirmonaut? Or a better question: Where is the Skirmonaut? The task of the Skirmonaut is to constantly demarcate itself and delimit its environment, for it is the origin of the ecology of the screen. Its task is to delimit the screen. In so doing, it constantly rediscovers that screening is itself this act of delimitation.
The Skirmonaut is the preemptively, or even proleptically, nostalgic creature par excellence.
The Skirmonaut is diabolical. It operates…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Internet, Technology
Subjects
Internet Art
# 61
Iridescence, Intimacies
Tavi Meraud
There are more pressing matters than this potentially touchy matter of pressing close. The following story isn’t so much an apology for intimacy or some kind of championing of it, but rather the modest suggestion that intimacy organizes our experience of space and especially of surfaces. As such, it is in fact not so trivial or delicate after all. These are notes towards a reconceptualization of intimacy in light of new ways in which we can think of the surface.
1. Iridescence…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2015
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Animals, Intimacy, Color, Biology, Optics & Perception, Love