[NewMusic] More anti-carbon floop-print poopoganda

[kristin miltner]

there are so many smart things in here that i don't know where to begin. let
me just say that, yeah, the balancing act between integrity and
participation in popular culture is really tough.

obviously dropping out doesn't do any good. being utopian about using
it while ignoring the politics behind it isn't good either.

k


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alicia Byer <aliciabyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the point here is that networking software really does have the
> potential to do something positive for art (as evidenced by everybody's
> attachment to it) and it's just shitty that some asshole owns it and
> exploits it.. the same thing happens to everything with political
> potential in capitalism, it's simply absorbed or annexed instead of
> being opposed.
>
> I interviewed this opera director in germany... she had written an opera
> about skinheads, kind of sympathizing with them in a way. The main kid
> who eventually became a neonazi had an art critic for a dad. Every time
> the kid to make art, the dad would put it on display and all the "powers
> that be" of society would comment on it and approve it and put it in a
> gallery, leeching away all the subversive power. Eventually the kid went
> crazy and became a Nazi because as the director put it, "that is the
> only thing that is so taboo that it will never be absorbed." She also
> said that "In a society like ours... that is always eating our tries to
> oppose [sic] almost always if you are a clever person at all you must go
> so far outside.. " (to stay true to yourself or have some integrity).
>
> Now I'm not advocating neo-nazism, those people are scary and gave me a
> run for my money while I was in berlin, but I think there is some truth
> to the fact that we're between a rock and a hard place: either you sell
> your soul to the machine little piece by piece, day by day, or you try
> to retain some integrity, which forces you to live on an extreme fringe
> that may warp you and is not always necessarily good for your objectives
> either.
>
> I'm not saying I have an answer, just pointing out that there doesn't
> seem to be a convenient(tm) way to exist with any integrity in America.
>
> -alicia
>
> Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> > Matt declared:
> > This talk about evil
> > corporations, how all CEOs are fascists, and how using any store-bought
> > product or internet service is contributing to the destruction of our
> > otherwise edenistic existence?
> >
> > - I don't think anyone is saying that all CEOs are fascists ... Only
> Rupert
> > Murdoch, which might be slightly hyperbolizing his politics, but not by
> > much. Oh, if only myspace was owned by George Clooney instead ...
> >
> > sl
> >
> >
> >
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kristin miltner
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