Won’t you listen to what the DJ’s spinnin’ . . . A DJ is a worker, and the work she or he does looks like someone on a production line. She takes a tune that comes down a conveyor belt – the belt is called time and the tune comes from a direction called future – and she matches it with a tune that is right in front of her, which is called nowness.

Timothy Morton, in the catalogue for The parliament of possibilities, Leeum Museum

Telepathy means ‘passion at a distance’.

What happens when we are in a space where a DJ is working is something like the formation of a gigantic ear. This ear attunes to the crowd, the crowd attunes to the attunement. It is not surprising that DJ-ing has often been described as telepathy. Telepathy means ‘passion at a distance’.

Timothy Morton

When I DJ I am listening to the tune. The things I hear in the tune get enhanced by other tunes that I juxtapose – I put them underneath, I overlap them, I make them fade into one another. I am saying, ‘There is more in this tune than the tune itself’. I expose the wiring under the board.

Timothy Morton

Writing about music is always like dancing about architecture. Thinking about music is also like raining about glass. Philosophising about design. Designing about philosophy. Why not? It’s intuitive, no? I mean, dancing about architecture is exactly what we do every day, when we walk through it. As Viktor Shklovsky put it, a dance is simply a walk that is felt.

Timothy Morton

Culture Is a Human Right
Rather than bet on a single technological invention, idea, or product to improve the world, my best bet for a better world lies in the cumulative aspirational power that is expressed by all peoples on this planet through art and culture.

Participation in culture is a fundamental right, as outlined by article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I propose that we take this right and all its implications seriously. This means not only ensuring the right to participate in culture, but also actively supporting culture and its practitioners, expanding access to it, and inviting more people to engage in its production and discussion.

Excerpt from Eliasson's text in Big Bet 2030 book - released today. More about the book here: http://bigbetinitiative.com/the-book/