Sorry. I think I was trying to be a bit too cute with my posting. arthur
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] timesizing not downsizing The conversation on FW is moving a bit too fast for me. It's kinda like the cowboy in the B-grade western who "mounted his horse and rode off in all directions". :-) So I'm a bit tardy in my responses, but the irony did not totally escape me, that when I slagged television: It's been 60 years now, since commercial television became ubiquitous, 40 or more years since the average [1] TV-watching time has been hovering somewhere between 20 and 30 hours a week. That's the equivalent of a light-to-medium university course load. And every bit of it carries the imprimatur of large institutions who are diligently trying to control the viewer's behavior, typically to get the viewer to buy something; at least to accept that "buying something" is the default core subject of public discourse. [snip etc. etc.] and Arthur replied: > Every once in a while I like to go back and listen to Howl. > > Here is Allen Ginsberg Reading Howl (Part 1) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50 the effect of my flossinaucinihilipilification of TV sent Arthur off to watch a video. :-o Oh, well, I'm not down on the medium, per se. I've actually worked (albeit avocationally and peripherally) on animation/video/multimedia projects. But, you know, "Give a man a medium and you'll intrigue him for a day. Give a giant coporation a medium and it'll turn it into tool for global hegemony". Or something like that. > Your posting put me in the mood. Sorry, Arthur. I'll try, in the future, for a little more levity and a little less "Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone. Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks." - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
