Hi Alan, Yes - it can all begin to feel a bit suffocating...
marc > I've been unnerved, particularly at the ELO Conf recently, at the > ubiquitous presence of I-everythings; in some cases, it was hard to hold a > conversation in real life at times. I have a lot of objections to Apple - > not to the quality of their products etc. - but to their cultural position > (which isn't the result of quality; it's far more complex). Apple's > touched a techno-fetishist nerve; the problem is, judging from students > I've had and other conversations, it's difficult for people to see outside > the box, and Apple obviously likes it that way. I'm not trying to open up > the usual debates here; I'm just bothered by the constant branding of > I-this and -that, as if there were an authentic liberalism here instead of > highly successful and rarely questioned corporate tagging. > > - Alan > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, marc garrett wrote: > > >> I would love to see this up-scaled & either 'sprayed or posted' in the >> streets somewhere... >> >> marc >> >>> Skeleton >>> >>> Drab and Violent Decay t's Lost >>> We're Fucked Poisoned by >>> Fundamentally Useless Corporate SHT >>> Corporate Viral Memetics of >>> Philosophical Discour >>> >>> T W >>> >>> Ti i ii W >>> R. T i i >>> . T >>> i . O >>> i >>> . T i >>> i. i >>> . W i >>> ii ii. >>> T ii ii >>> ii. >>> i >>> i ii. O >>> i . C >>> i . W >>> i . T ii >>> i. T >>> i i >>> i. Ai i >>> i i >>> . T i i >>> i. Mi >>> . T i >>> i. i i >>> - -i. >>> Oi ii >>> i. Di ii >>> ii i i. >>> Ci >>> i i >>> Dii >>> ii ii. >>> Si i i >>> . C i >>> -. B-i >>> >>> i i. N i, >>> . T i >>> , i. T >>> - i i; >>> i . A >>> , i. >>> ii i >>> . ii i >>> i. T i >>> i, . T >>> i , >>> i. ii i >>> ii. Ti i >>> W R. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
