# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 1
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/hp4tnvq
Had a nice talk last night with J about digital art. We talked a little about Walter Benjamin's "Work of art in the age of..." and the description of a kind of linear conception of *technological* history in art, where there's this sort of idea that spectacle follows technological breakthroughs. The stunning architecture of Gothic cathedrals, the impact of hyperrealism in an age before photography, and so on. J mentioned "post-internet" art, and he's been working for an artist who is working on new ways to present digital artworks... which is still very much within this linear conception of art history being basically a story of technological innovation... and that all just feels hollow. If we accept that one role of art is to be transcendent in some way -- to pull us into a critical or aesthetic place where life maybe looks different, or we can step outside ourselves in some small way and mingle with something much greater than us. The awe-historical timeline, maybe... If that's the case then the place to look for awe in 2021 is not in networked digital spaces per se. I think, as Jameson suggests, we need to find some way back to a positive relationship with nature. It's only the awe of the interpersonal and inter-natural that seems interesting now...