Well said Jon... the pop/collective celebre as poem or gestural (ala sumi-e) drawing.
Regarding these "seductions", having archetypical figures to identify with/aspire towards, they can also be cautionary. I'm sure there are many (esp. young LIbertarians) who aspire to be Musk. I don't know how close Glen's debunking of the "Great Man Theory" comes to the "Cult of Personality" trope, but they would seem to be corollaries in some way. > /*we* make these celebrities/ > > Celebrity is co-creation. /We/ cannot help but see what we see, /seduced/ > by the possibilities afforded by the image. Dually, the image becomes > the captive of collective /desire/. What seems worth noting, is the power > of a partially-defined image, like with poetry, an object that waits > for another to complete it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sent from the Friam mailing list archive > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> at Nabble.com. > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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