Flavortone

Episode 50: Captain's Log, Transcendental [PATREON PREVIEW]


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In this 50th episode of Flavortone, Alec and Nick settle deep in cups of "earl grey, hot" from the replicator for an entry into the Star Ship Flavorphonia Captain's Log. Citing Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the duo take this ancient maritime convention of record keeping at sea to trace various other epistemic fault-lines in the practice and theory of notation. The duo consider the "log" as a mundane account which transcends its quantitative form in generating unanticipated moral and aesthetic inventories. Branching from this analysis, the broader discussion includes consideration of a tweet by Holly Herndon on the stakes of creative work alongside AI, Deleuze & Guattari's emphasis on expression dictating methods, the holodeck and other utopian imaginaries in Star Trek, the notation practice of Pascale Criton, the Ryan Trecartin film "center jenny" (2013), Anthony Braxton, the daily-life "logging" involved in gardening, cooking, home-improvement, and more.

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