Re: (idm) Reynolds etc.

From eric hill
Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 23:03

>> as an alternative to reynolds' all-too-ideological line of thought, i'd
>> suggest sarah thornton's "club cultures" (wesleyan, 1996), which aims to
>
>That's all well and good and I realize that baseline analytical methods are
>truly at the heart of many of such communicative disagreements, but it changes
>nothing about the fact the lo-fi nerd-ness and the techno variety of this
>disease which many people on this list apparently possess is self-destructive
>and does little to truly help art.

the argument that's being made is that there is a kind of art in all this
that is vital. anybody can buy stock in either side of the fence and wave
banners, but the reality is that this thing is going on and it isn't dying
under it's own weight. in fact, the evidence suggests that it's thriving
regardless of the ends some fans would like to push it towards. perhaps
when a form of art is seen as a source of growth, certain people start
seeing it as their job to make sure that it becomes culturally significant
in some way, with extra prizes to the nonstradamuses who guess the best.

eric

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