From Tom Millar Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 22:34
From Tom Millar Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 22:34
Sean Cooper wrote: > as an alternative to reynolds' all-too-ideological line of thought, i'd > suggest sarah thornton's "club cultures" (wesleyan, 1996), which aims to > understand the internal logics of subcultural forms and their situation > in/relationship to the larger divisions out of which they grow, through > which they are articulated, and with which they are in inevitabe dialogue. 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. I have no problem with the pragmatic issues involved in the pressing-of-500 practice employed my so many, but the whole extra-limited-edition "look at how exclusive my stuff is" shit doesn't mean anything really. It doesn't add real value to art when you purposefully make it obscure. If you have to start small and only press 500, that's an important consideration, but if you make enough money and have enough demand to do a repressing, do it, don't say "well, I'm going to make this a limited edition, so sorry." That's crap. Tom