Of postmodern mass production
When I visit my local shopping centre and find the same mass produced object in 4 different stores at slightly different prices I get depressed. I want a different object, not a different cost.
If only things were that simple. Being involved in a macro-process over which you have no particular control is maddenning. But when these magical processes produce odd things like culture, i.e. Trish O'Brien and Gareth Koch visiting the Powerhouse next month, my mood lifts. I'm accepting of the fact that I've been almost entirely co-opted by technology and it's "usefulness." As Gibson points out in No Maps for These Territories, were we to go back to a state of nature we wouldn't like it. It would hurt. We would die faster. There would be different priorities.
That aside, it seems odd to celebrate how much freedom we have in the developed world. The paradox of having freedom is that you have less action, less connection. It's tricky, but try perusing Beckett's short piece Play for an idea, "a little dinghy."
Mass production does not give me my little dinghy, "a little dinghy, on the river, I resting on my oars, they lolling on air-pillows in the stern ... sheets. Drifting. Such fantasies."
~Niveau
If only things were that simple. Being involved in a macro-process over which you have no particular control is maddenning. But when these magical processes produce odd things like culture, i.e. Trish O'Brien and Gareth Koch visiting the Powerhouse next month, my mood lifts. I'm accepting of the fact that I've been almost entirely co-opted by technology and it's "usefulness." As Gibson points out in No Maps for These Territories, were we to go back to a state of nature we wouldn't like it. It would hurt. We would die faster. There would be different priorities.
That aside, it seems odd to celebrate how much freedom we have in the developed world. The paradox of having freedom is that you have less action, less connection. It's tricky, but try perusing Beckett's short piece Play for an idea, "a little dinghy."
Mass production does not give me my little dinghy, "a little dinghy, on the river, I resting on my oars, they lolling on air-pillows in the stern ... sheets. Drifting. Such fantasies."
~Niveau