Forsooth Alan, I feel I was not clear - to be precise I had an image of the cultural consumer playing in them ashes - not really the producers - although... Now Roja and Harvey I don't know.. Twas just a thought.. Mmm occupy... Post-Fordist..?
Simon On 29 Mar 2012, at 18:55, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > Except that if you look at Roja or Harvey you'll find just the > opposite, > and it's this sort of post-Fordist analysis that contributed to Occupy > etc. I taught pomo at one point at UTD and don't recognize this > 'played' > you speak of; if anything, it was hard-edged. Mike Davis too of > course. > > - Alan > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Simon Mclennan wrote: > >> ... and so post modernism played into the hands of the bourgeoisie - >> "We never cared about socialism anyway, and could revel in the >> thought that it didn't really matter and we could just go on doing >> the thing most dear to our hearts... making money". So easy now to >> play in the ashes of modernism and the critical discourse of the >> intellectuals could be merrily diluted into the ironic mish-mash of >> hybridity that was easy on the ear and easy on the wallet! Hor hor >> hordy hor!! and let's pop into the ICA while we're at it...ha ha >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > == > blog: http://avatarpaste.blogspot.com/ > eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ (closed) > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ or > http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rj.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
