I tend to agree with this. Simon On 6 May 2013, at 16:54, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> > > I hadn't heard of these either, seem more an extension of the pith > and omniscience of Baudrillard and Zizek as well as the surface > fetishiza- tion of hiphop videos but what do I know. There was a > group 'tch tch tch' (the real name was written by arrows) in > Australia in the 80s with similar music and surfaces. On the > political, does any of it matter - capital will continue to enclave > and increase, everything compresses as a result. The videos tend to > focus on the 1%, not the slaughter and extinctions of humans plants > and animals that come in their wake. Part of the real violence > against us is produced by our insistence at the burial of the cost > of these surfaces, an insistence that's comfortable and deeply > passive. It's "hard" to look at something dying, although there was > a flurry of fetishization of beheading videos on Facebook recently. > How cool. The only non-saving grace of all of this, is that it will > rust like everything else, as climate change increases its > exponential onslaught. Good luck to our always already dying progeny. > > There has to be a better way. > > - Alan > > >> From: Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> >> Dear Michael, >> I like these two videos very much. They are aesthetic, dreamlike, >> mesmerizing. Great. >> BlablaWave serving BeautifulVaporVOID >> Love >> Annie >> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Michael Szpakowski >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I had an interesting conversation with Steven on Friday about >> vaporwave, which I'd not previously heard of. >> >> Steven then sent me this: >> >> http://www.dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper- >> vaporwave/ >> >> I made this: >> >> https://vimeo.com/65457637 >> >> and Steven made this >> >> https://vimeo.com/65477887 >> >> might be more; or you might care to join us >> >> cheers >> michael >> -- >> >> http://www.bram.org >> http://aaabrahams.wordpres.com >> http://metalogues.tumblr.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> -- >> ===================================================== >> directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 347-383-8552music/sound >> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com >> ===================================================== >> -- >> ===================================================== >> directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 347-383-8552 music/sound >> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com >> ===================================================== >> > > == > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rz.txt > ==_______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
