Bonsoir Ă tous, bonsoir Ă toi.
La derniĂšre newsletter remonte Ă bien longtemps et nous nâen sommes pas fiers. Le travail et quelques projets Ă cĂŽtĂ© ont pas mal challengĂ© le rythme 1NL/semaine. On pourrait penser que le confinement est lâoccasion idĂ©ale pour redevenir plus productif mais, pour lâinstant, câest un peu lâinverse pour moi. Je prĂ©fĂšre faire autre chose que de lire des trucs.
PensĂ©e Ă tous ceux qui ont du mal Ă traverser cette phase, quâil sâagisse de galĂšre Ă adapter sa vie pro ou perso. Et Ă ceux qui ont des proches au front.
De notre cĂŽtĂ©, cĂŽtĂ© hellofdp, câest un peu relou. On rigole Ă moitiĂ© Ă lâidĂ©e de vraiment faire quelque chose de cette fausse agence et, depuis quelques mois, on songe Ă tenter de lancer quelque chose. On sâinterroge encore sur le modĂšle et le scope de lâoffre. Du coup, toujours sans trop se prendre au sĂ©rieux, on essaye de rencontrer et dâĂ©changer avec des gens. A Londres notamment, car lâindustrie nâest pas exactement la mĂȘme quâici et quâil y a des acteurs particuliĂšrement intĂ©ressants. Il Ă©tait prĂ©vu dâen rencontrer quelques uns fin mars, dont CrowdDNA, OnRoad et une researcher que jâapprĂ©cie beaucoup. Malheureusement, un pangolin braisĂ© aux 5 Ă©pices Ă lâautre bout de la planĂšte a fait sauter lâagenda. Câest dommage et pas cool pour la motivation, mais au fond ce nâest pas trĂšs grave compte tenu de la situation pour dâautres.
Sans transition, la newsletter du jour. Ayant du mal à me concentrer sur des choses trop sérieuses, la situation actuelle faisant un peu relativiser, ça sera un format un peu spécial, avec moins de rédaction et plus de liens. Faites votre marché (no pun intended).
Ca parle de pandĂ©mie et des faiblesses de nos cultures, de foot au fĂ©minin, de la vertu de lâĂ©coute, de mĂ©thodologie du questionnement, du rĂŽle des productions artistiques et des artistes Ă lâheure des rĂ©seaux sociaux, et dâune agence que lâon kiffe.
Letâs go.
đŠ Virus culturel đŠ
PiochĂ© dans une de mes newsletters prefs (La vie matĂ©rielle de Tiphaine), âPanic, Pandemic, and the Body Politicâ explore le covid-19 comme attaque contre nos systĂšmes culturels plus que nos systĂšmes immunitaires. Un test pour nos sociĂ©tĂ©s Ă faire face Ă des dĂ©sastres dâĂ©chelle mondiale.
For many centuries, the conflict driving the plot engine of the human race has been the tension between individualism and collective behaviorâbetween the goal of independent flourishing and the concept of the common good. As a species, we have spent several centuries nurturing a collective mindset that rejects collective endeavor, and most of us are living in nations that seem perilously convinced that the human race is a thing you can actually win.
The collective psychology of neoliberalism encourages self-interest and short-term thinking. It both creates and requires human lives that are organized around the kind of constant insecurity and stress that actively prevent us from thinking beyond the next fiscal quarter. The diseases that are most successful in the coming century will, as always, be the diseases that exploit our major failure modes and popular delusions.
Comme de plus en plus ces derniers temps, il est question de remise en question de fonctionnements au niveau institutionnel VS systĂšmes Ă©tablis, de changement de comportements individuels VS volontĂ© et, comme trĂšs souvent, de court-termisme VS long-termisme (un mot qui, paradoxalement, nâexiste pas). Les parallĂšles avec lâurgence climatique sont Ă©vidents, Ă la diffĂ©rence importante que cette catastrophe est beaucoup plus graduelle et sâapplique Ă lâhumanitĂ©, lĂ oĂč le covid-19 est beaucoup plus vĂ©loce et rĂ©el dans les imaginaires.
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Regardez FOOTEUSES si ce nâest pas encore fait. Par Yard, Ryan Doubiago & Lyna Saoucha.
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Partisan de lâidĂ©e dâĂpictĂšte selon laquelle âwe have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speakâ, jâai aimĂ© lâarticle The Right to Listen - As citizens of a democracy, we need to hear one another. Why canât we? qui se consacre Ă lâĂcoute. Astra Taylor interroge lâĂcoute comme composante de la DĂ©mocratie (et plus largement de la sociĂ©tĂ© commune) Ă travers expĂ©riences personnelles en tant que rĂ©alisatrice de documentaires et observations historiques.
LâĂcoute nâest pas quelque chose dâacquis. Elle nĂ©cessite dâĂȘtre dans une posture, un effort et une certaine volontĂ© :
But to listen is to act; of that, thereâs no doubt. It takes effort and doesnât happen by default. As anyone who has been in a heated argumentâor whoâs simply tried to coexist with family members, colleagues, friends, and neighborsâwell knows, itâs often easier not to listen. We can tune out and let othersâ words wash over us, hearing only what we want to hear, or we can pantomime the act of listening, nodding along while waiting for our turn to speak. Even when we want to be rapt, our attentions wane. Deciding to listen to someone is a meaningful gesture. It accords them a special kind of recognition and respect.
Ce passage rappelle dâailleurs le point de vue de Clay Christensen sur la notion de Question, dont on parle dans la newsletter n°3. Pdv selon lequel : âQuestions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you havenât asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the questionâââyou have to want to knowâââin order to open up the space for the answer to fit.â
LâĂ©coute est une facultĂ© aujourdâhui mise Ă lâĂ©preuve des encouragements Ă toujours plus sâexprimer. Quâil sâagisse dâencouragements liĂ©s aux Ă©volutions de la sociĂ©tĂ© ; âToday, we are constantly reminded of the importance of free speech and the First Amendment; we exalt freedom in the expressive realm. Is there some corresponding principle of listening worth defending?â, ou des nouveaux outils rĂ©gissants celle-ci ; âWhile social-media platforms do facilitate speech, their business models revolve, in a fundamental way, around the manipulation and commodification of listening. [âŠ] A deluge of content and commentaryâin which paid advertising, some of it political and deceptive, circulates alongside funny memes, awe-inspiring animal videos, and grassroots opinionâkeeps us scrolling, conjuring the illusion of listening. But, by design, such feeds amplify the shallow, outrageous, and self-promoting, discouraging the prolonged engagement that deeper forms of listening require.â
Astra Taylor donne plusieurs pistes de lectures pour comprendre cette notion sous tension Ă travers la DĂ©mocratie historique grecque et celle contemporaine de Trump, les tĂ©moignages dâĂ©coliers quâelle a pu interviewĂ©, les rĂ©alisateurs qui lâont inspirĂ©e ou encore les voix dâAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez et Greta Thunberg.
What made America great, they suggested, was every individualâs right to say anything, without reserve and without inviting a response. This was a conception of democratic life that centered on self-expression, with listening left out. In its version of democracy, speech need only go one way.
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Jâai dĂ©couvert dans âWhy is it interestingâ, une autre newsletter que jâaime beaucoup, que la mĂ©thode des â5 whysâ, mĂ©thode dâidentification de problĂšme, venait, comme bon nombre de mĂ©thodos, du monde de lâindustrie automobile. Comme le kanban, ça vient de chez Toyota et de leur Production System, un genre de playbook dans lequel Taiichi Ohno dĂ©taille les mĂ©thodologies et les principes organisant la prise de dĂ©cision de lâentreprise.
Plus rĂ©cemment re-popularisĂ© pour lâĂšre du digital par le bouquin sur le Design Sprint de Google Ventures, la technique des 5 whyâs est on ne peut plus simple. Il convient de rĂ©pĂ©ter âpourquoiâ un certain nombre de fois afin dâidentifier le coeur du problĂšme plutĂŽt que de se limiter Ă des symptĂŽmes ou observations Ă©videntes.
Why did the machine stop?
There was an overload and the fuse blew.Why was there an overload?
The bearing was not sufficiently lubricated.Why was it not lubricated?
The lubrication pump was not pumping sufficiently.Why was it not pumping sufficiently?
The shaft of the pump was worn and rattling.Why was the shaft worn out?
There was no strainer attached and metal scraps got in.
âPourquoi ?â et âça dĂ©pendâ constituant 50% de mes rĂ©ponses Ă une question, jâapprĂ©cie particuliĂšrement cette mĂ©thodo.
đš Lâartiste au centre du complexe industrialo-artistique đš
Content Industrial Complex de Dena Yago dĂ©crypte en 3 parties le rapport entre marques, social media et artistes, ainsi que les conditions dâexploitation de ces derniers. Lâartiste influenceur est Ă©tudiĂ© comme pourvoyeur de âcultural relevanceâ (disons âpertinence culturelleâ en français), pour les marques et les consommateurs.
Je vous laisse lire, je vous mets juste des citations comprenant des concepts que je trouve intĂ©ressants mais qui ne rĂ©sument pas lâessai de lâauteure.
âExhibitions as content farmâ et âartworks as backdropsâ sont des termes qui mettent les mots sur une scĂšne Ă laquelle jâai assistĂ© encore il y a 2 weekends. En quĂȘte de comprĂ©hension du principe dâart contemporain, je suis passĂ© Ă la galerie Perrotin oĂč jâai pu assister Ă un vrai-faux shooting de vrais-faux models se mettant en scĂšne devant les imposants moulages cristallisĂ©s de Daniel Arsham. Des mecs trĂšs stylĂ©s mais Ă moitiĂ© gĂȘnĂ©s, capables dâassumer des gros baggies oranges mais probablement encore un peu embarrassĂ©s Ă lâidĂ©e dâutiliser une galerie et ses oeuvres comme le fond de couleur du studio dâĂ cotĂ©.
Kusamaâs installation exemplifies a widespread shift in art towards the exhibition as content farm. Along these lines, successful art is whatever begets the most UGC. Beyond mere likes and engagement, exhibitions encourage gallery- and museumgoers to produce their own unique content, which is then posted to social media. [âŠ] this art spams our feeds, as if its ability to demand attention not only within the white cube but outside it proves its very status as art. Escaping once and for all their designated playpen within Bourdieuâs restricted field of cultural productionâwhere artists produce culture for other professional culture-producers, in contrast to the nonrestricted field of mass cultureâthese artists seek to compete with and triumph over cat memes, creating viable content for social media at large.
And why not? Today, everyone is a culture-producer, producing culture for every other culture-producer. This breakdown in the cultural division of labor is reflected in the emphasis not on images of artworks themselves, but on images (especially selfies) of people posing in front of artworks, proving both the authenticity and presence of the photographed personâthink of artworks-as-backdrops.
La notion de Diegetic Advertising caractĂ©rise la pratique dâinclusion dâĂ©lĂ©ments de marques directement dans lâoeuvre.
Drawing from the legacy of pop art, appropriation, and situationist dĂ©tournement, among other art historical approaches to consumerist and capitalist critique, artists include the logo or name of a brand in the work itself. This is done as an act of criticism, irony, or post-ironic sincerity, this last of which is often compounded with a sense of indignation along the lines of âSo what if I love Doritos and Mountain Dew?â This embrace of mass-produced brands also serves to critique the implicit or explicit classism and racism of those who snobbishly reject them.Â
avec le risque inhĂ©rent pour lâartiste de voir son intention dĂ©tournĂ©e
Once an image of such a work is posted to social media and flattened into the content terrain, the artist must acknowledge that their position will be rendered illegible. When seen on the other side of the feed, viewers may not account for the nuances of artistic critique present in a work that includes FedEx boxes, SmartWater, or any other brand name or product as a shorthand for capitalist critique. The work is viewed by social media managers and strategists on the other side of the feed as an homage to the brand, or as genuine âbrand love.â
Checkez lâessai. Dena Yago est une Ă©niĂšme femme brillante du crew KHOLE, navigant entre stratĂ©gie, culture et pratiques artistiques, nous offrant son cerveau sur un plateau.
đ”đœââïž Lâhomme qui murmurait Ă lâoreille des jeunes (ou lâinverse) đ”đœââïž
Pour finir, je parlais dâOnRoad en intro, donc voici un mini podcast / interview dâun de ses fondateurs, Tarik Fontenelle. Il y parle de son parcours, de sa strategic insight agency, de leur contribution Ă Nothing Beats a Londoner de Nike et quelques autres sujets.
Restezchezvousement votre,
hellofdp.