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'DOCTORED NEWSPAPERS'
- The idea of a newspaper, dependent on its distribution - form tied to functionality & economy, produces an 'economy of information' - political ramifications of this approach - how can these politics be skewed, bent?
- Double meaning of 'doctored', invoking both the scalpel & the spin doctor - in this practice the two are married
- Processed newspapers - reading, absorption involves a kind of processing, structuring & selection of information, but this process suggests passivity - Another, different kind of processing that is entirely more aggressive, more interventionist, evoking a situation where the raw material undergoes transformation, radical & decisive change, in order to draw out other (hitherto submerged, suppressed) meanings - similar to assembly-line production - ambushed meanings, blocked messages, stymied transmissions
- The age-old metaphors of collage spring into being, but here we are less concerned w/ recontextualisation than w/ blocked meanings, interfering w/ channels of communication - a practice arranged around ambiguity, incoherence
- The polar opposite of extravagance - in this instance, succinctness equals money - what happens, then, if we reverse the equation, opening the newspaper to the possibilities of excess, altering the frenzied rhythms of journalistic practice, reconciling them perhaps w/ something older, deeper, lumbering...
- Ideas incorporating the practice of Tzara & Burroughs - esp. Burroughs' idea of language as a virus - quite reasonable, then, that we should fortify ourselves against its onslaughts, innoculate ourselves w/ the understanding of its effects
- What determines 'newsworthiness'? Neither the sensational nor the commonplace, but the intrusion of one into the realm of the other
- Interceptions
- Faces indistinguishable; all acquire anonymity in print: in fact, if an appearance in print media constitutes the end of a person as a discrete entity, and their entrance into a bland homogenous data-stream, why do we regard it as an honour?
- The re-telling of 'grand narratives', the archetypical myths we weave around everyday events. In this respect, even the most fantastical stories conform to some kind of pattern orr conventional form - recognisable features abound.
- Interfering w/ 'the news' points to the arbitrariness, the samishness of it all - nothing can really obstruct the constant, unstemmable flow of bullshit, nor alter its uniformly brown tone.
- Marks of respectability, reliability - measured in increments of 'seriousness'.
- The idea of a newspaper, dependent on its distribution - form tied to functionality & economy, produces an 'economy of information' - political ramifications of this approach - how can these politics be skewed, bent?
- Double meaning of 'doctored', invoking both the scalpel & the spin doctor - in this practice the two are married
- Processed newspapers - reading, absorption involves a kind of processing, structuring & selection of information, but this process suggests passivity - Another, different kind of processing that is entirely more aggressive, more interventionist, evoking a situation where the raw material undergoes transformation, radical & decisive change, in order to draw out other (hitherto submerged, suppressed) meanings - similar to assembly-line production - ambushed meanings, blocked messages, stymied transmissions
- The age-old metaphors of collage spring into being, but here we are less concerned w/ recontextualisation than w/ blocked meanings, interfering w/ channels of communication - a practice arranged around ambiguity, incoherence
- The polar opposite of extravagance - in this instance, succinctness equals money - what happens, then, if we reverse the equation, opening the newspaper to the possibilities of excess, altering the frenzied rhythms of journalistic practice, reconciling them perhaps w/ something older, deeper, lumbering...
- Ideas incorporating the practice of Tzara & Burroughs - esp. Burroughs' idea of language as a virus - quite reasonable, then, that we should fortify ourselves against its onslaughts, innoculate ourselves w/ the understanding of its effects
- What determines 'newsworthiness'? Neither the sensational nor the commonplace, but the intrusion of one into the realm of the other
- Interceptions
- Faces indistinguishable; all acquire anonymity in print: in fact, if an appearance in print media constitutes the end of a person as a discrete entity, and their entrance into a bland homogenous data-stream, why do we regard it as an honour?
- The re-telling of 'grand narratives', the archetypical myths we weave around everyday events. In this respect, even the most fantastical stories conform to some kind of pattern orr conventional form - recognisable features abound.
- Interfering w/ 'the news' points to the arbitrariness, the samishness of it all - nothing can really obstruct the constant, unstemmable flow of bullshit, nor alter its uniformly brown tone.
- Marks of respectability, reliability - measured in increments of 'seriousness'.