A funny pass in Edward Chancellor's review of John Lanchester's "Whoops! on the financial crisis and its causes. The art-cult-net (in)crowd will probably appreciate... ;-)
"Mr. Lanchester compares the shift in finance over recent decades to the rise of modernism in the arts. It constituted a "break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction, and notions that couldn't be displayed in workaday English." Finance had become as rotten as modern literary criticism. The bookish Mr. Lanchester senses a "weird familiarity about the current crisis: value, in the realm of finance capital, parallels the elusive nature of meaning in deconstructionism." full review article at: http://bit.ly/6Y32ou Cheerio, p+3D! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
