Since we will be clearly discussing NFTs for a long time to come, I will be cataloguing and shaping some first thoughts on the matter here.
To start with: Dean Kissick’s great and latest features both Charlie Curran and me going about our business, which is interesting, and welcome.
Dean’s analysis is almost all you need to get up to date at this point, but you need to read it now. Things are moving quickly as this whole thing gets rolled up into the larger culture war.
Matters pending:
—art that is bad, qua art / art that is bad, or evil / degenerate art: the whole moral quandary around this is painful, largely unrewarding and culturo-civilisationally important, because
I once said Bataille would have been all over crypto, and NFTs are why. This is peak civilisational performance. You may not like it, but you don’t have to.
—the question of aura, which has necromancy written all over it and is just too perverted for me to forthrightly reject, especially with the assistance of fellow magicians Charlie Curran and John T. Connor. Can we do to Benjamin what Deleuze did to Leibniz? Maybe, maybe not; we shall see. Will the gods forgive us? Probably not (though I’ve seen gods do stranger things). In any case: do not try this at home, kids—or not until we have a working proof of concept.
Ladran Sancho, señal que cabalgamos. 1
More soon.
Your accursed shareholder,
MB.
Which is spuriously adjudicated to Cervantes via Goethe, I know—that’s the point. [Flings “apocrypha” into Matters pending].
Going forward, "the question of aura, which has necromancy written all over it and is just too perverted for me to forthrightly reject" got me most interested in what you have to say about this trend. I'm having FOMO induced anxiety attacks... Your analysis is appreciated.