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Here’s a talk from Monochrom’s<\/a> Johannes on “context hacking” from TedX Vienna (via<\/a>). Mostly anecdotes. Not a lot here on method, i.e., on how<\/em> to sub-subversion-vert. Yet I find it interesting in part because of the ascendant status of contextualism in rhetoric and writing (as a point of pedagogical, intellectual, and methodological insistence), and in part because of how constantly and arbitrarily contexts must be fenced in, demarcated. Watching this I wanted to know, is context hacking generalizable? Maybe not. Another problem is that the leftist\/postmodernist\/melancholic identifications risk functioning as a ticket to an ethics-free zone. Leftist-postmodernist-melancholics might not sweat this detail, but the presentation leads us up to the other side of the coin, even if it does not reckon with still another reversal of subversion: What is the function of context hacking on the right?<\/p>\n

No, really, I’m asking.<\/p>\n

If for none of these reasons, it’s worth watching\/contemplating for a peak at the mundane self-portrait, Material Study with Scanned Photo of Self in a Beer Mood and Photoshop Crystallization Filter (2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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