[spectre] [the horror] Violence in Darkest Europe - is it such a new idea?

[Lachlan Brown]

'The human character contains both a light and a dark side, good and bad,
individually manifested. Deeply rooted is a dark-sided
element:  Violence.'  - Violence Festival.


The question of 'social inclusion' has since the very beginning of
the debate about net art and culture in Europe provoked naive and quite
crude representations of 'darkness' often embodied as the 'Black
African Man'. This representation in image and in text has
appeared in early books (Embodied Knowledge, ed. John Wood)
and in 'playful' reproductions and circulations of email texts
known as the 'Nigerian Scam'. The reaction is a perennial
on Internet and it has the characteristic of a defence of
terrain and content, not to mention access to the locations
of power and production of meanings.

What might these anxieties have to tell us about Darkest Europe?




Lachlan










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