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On Transindustriality, TETI Journal no.1, November, 2024 With: Cyrus Khalatbari, Loïc Rogard & Cédric Carles, Eduardo Cruces, Rafaël Newman, Juliane Ahn, Mara Züst, Time's Up / Tim Boykett, Ana Bisbicus, The New Liquidity / Anders Ehlin & Selma Boskailo, Paul Dolan and Alan Dunn. Editorial Board: Anne-Laure Franchette, Gabriel N. Gee, Stephanie Gygax, Caroline Wiedmer The rapid transformations in economic and social fabric that have taken place since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has led observers to identify different sequences unfolding towards the present global yet fragmenting age. Fordism underlined the increased means of production delivered by an efficient division of labour within factories. Postfordism signalled the turn to even more flexible production modes, in parallel to the shift to global post-industrial societies, in which planning, management, information and knowledge industries, have become the central axis governing the shape of our social fabric. A focus on transindustrial patterns, however, aims to emphasise the ongoing circulations between different industrial, technological and cultural mutations, across interconnected historical periods. As such, it seeks to reflect on the ongoing role played by material infrastructure in the age of new media and climate change, on the physical roots that still inform digital expansions and virtual networks, and on the survivals, revivals, and haunting ghosts of past industriousness. The network (that you can’t hear) The 20-minute sound collage ‘The network (that you can’t hear)’ is an abstract podcast created by artists who are thinking deeply about the trans-industrial, primarily from their base in Liverpool City Region, and how as a network they are contributing to global trade, of (sonic) ideas as well as goods. Taking the modernist literature of Malcolm Lowry that was infused with the minutiae of scientific maritime details (see Ultramarine) the network has been sailing between Liverpool and the Isle of Man to specifically listen to the survival of technologies from one historical period to another. The network now create these mini radio plays around shipbuilding, old mining towns, wildlife sounds, radar blips, waterlines, sunken warships, underwater architecture, tides, foghorns and semaphore, taking in a three-generation voyage from Clydeside shipbuilding through hovercraft design to art school student, Gothic Marxist tales of doomed Arctic drill ship expositions and the lost three rivers of Belfast. In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River – to harm it is now the same as hurting a human - and in this context, the artists’ voices are also environmental, forming a micro-symposium staged on the very oceanic surface, artists’ voices dipping below and above to hear echoes of distant engines and ripples of future technologies as the sea rises physically and politically. |