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PostScriptUM #45
Jussi Parikka
There is Plenty of Room in the Simulation
In this essay, Jussi Parikka, writer and professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University, explores the concept of scale. He argues that nothing actually works on the 1:1 scale, so we needn’t be simplistic about scale. Nothing is really self-identical, because all is mediation. All is radically about scales, relations and friction. Across media and aesthetics, in every field which has had to negotiate how to inscribe abstraction in a communicable, tangible form, scale is mobilised inside and into the techniques of knowing. The simplicity of measurement is only apparent, it hides a series of scalar loops that reveal something essential: scale is the middle of an intertwining bundle of forces.
Scale is a generative notion and it entails an ethic-aesthetic meaning: scales standardise and potentially destabilise, and creating methods for other scales can be seen as an ethical practice.
EN | 14.8 x 21 cm | 17 pp | COLOUR | soft cover | 2023
ISBN 978-961-7173-24-6 (Printed)
ISBN 978-961-7173-23-9 (Digital)
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Jussi Parikka
There is Plenty of Room in the Simulation
PostScriptUM #45
Series edited by Janez Fakin Janša
Publisher: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Represented by Marcela Okretič
Proofreading: Miha Šuštar
Design: Luka Umek
Layout: Sonja Grdina
Cover image: Rosa Menkman, Decalibration Target: Start of Image Marker, Drone footage, produced by transmediale with the support of the Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries NL,
January 2023. Photo by Rosa Menkman | https://beyondresolution.info/TARGET
(c) Aksioma | All text and image rights reserved by the author | Ljubljana 2023
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana
Published in the framework of the programme Tactics & Practice #14: Scale and transmediale / a model, a map, a fiction
This research has been supported by the Czech Science Foundation funded project 19-26865X “Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations.”
Related event: Tactics & Practice #14: Scale