I love that.
At Glastonbury a couple of years ago I saw an intelligent-looking
youth speaking on his phone thus: "Where are you? I'm just coming into
a big field full of flags." Right next to him was a huge signpost,
with arrows to all parts of the site.
I also spoke to an 80-year-old grandmother
Marc, Davin and everyone,
We were chatting with a friend the other night and he was telling us about his
teenage daughter spending the weekend, facebook updating and tweeting
strategically about a sleepover and party at a particular friend's apartment
that never happened. When he asked her why
Marc,
Thanks for your further comments (no furtherfield pun intended)
> So, would you say that you are 'consciously' engaged in holding out a mirror
> image of the netopticon?
Not exactly, well maybe we are but that's not exactly our intention. We'd
stick with the notion that we are trying to
Thanks for the quotes and the link to the article.
The spirit of it reminds us of Gustav Metzger's second manifesto of
auto-destructive art (http://www.luftgangster.de/audeart3.html), and the
drowning man imagery points us to the problems of cultural feedback loops in
our societies (in the cy
Hi Jon & alison,
Just some thoughts responding to your last post...
>If we think of yet another essay by Foucault, What is an
>Author (http://www.scribd.com/doc/10268982/Foucault-What-is-an-Author)
>and his ideas of an author being more like a conduit than originator
>then, perhaps manipulation
Hi Jon & Alison
Sorry to be a bit incomprehensible, but I can add the following quotes to
clarify a bit: [*]
"Modern life appears as a drowning man filming itself in its dead
struggle, the sight of a drowning man filming his own drowning in a
world which as a whole is drowning is extremely abs
Hi Davin,
> Aside from the practical matter of keeping one's hands busy or putting
> food in one's belly a way of thinking needs to accompany these
> practices. And that, I think, is the greatest obstacle. We have no
> patience for dialogic cultural processes. We are in the habit of
> con
Hi Simon and Andreas
simon said:
> Sometimes a cinema is just a cinema.
Yes you're right sometimes a cinema is indeed just a cinema, although these
days most are fitted with night vision cameras.
andreas said:
> No!, it is just another subversion of the mighty new media mob, disguised as
> poli
