why would I want to? There's a world of sonic thrills every Friday on my Spotify Release Radar, on Bandcamp and Youtube, and I have a hard enough time keeping up with that, never mind the rest of the music from the past ~30 years of dance and electronic stuff that I'm drawn to. Mozart is just some boring old white guy making music that doesn't say anything to me about my life and doesn't sound as lush or intricate or adventurous or whatever as 2021 can and could.
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why would I want to? There's a world of sonic thrills every Friday on my Spotify Release Radar, on Bandcamp and Youtube, and I have a hard enough time keeping up with that, never mind the rest of the music from the past ~30 years of dance and electronic stuff that I'm drawn to. Mozart is just some boring old white guy making music that doesn't say anything to me about my life and doesn't sound as lush or intricate or adventurous or whatever as 2021 can and could.
luka
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This was my tradition thread
And there's this one too
And there's this one too
Nick Land and Neocameralism
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/neocameralism-and-escalator-of.html I initially dismissed some of these ideas as fedora-wearing, tech-nerd fantasy. But now Nick Land seems all excited about them (I know, small beer these days). Gotta be at least worth a bit of hand...
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line b
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That golden one character I like has a series where he plays Skyrim and narrates his playing as if he is the pure nordic blood line fighting off the degeneracy of modernity. From the comments:
‘When I visited Scandinavia for the first time, I actually expected to see people who were reminiscent of vikings. Instead I saw a lot of weak men pushing strollers, kneeling before feminists all day long and acting all feminine and demoralized. It's about time you guys started acting like vikings. You are both string and intelligent, use those gifts.’
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line b
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For America I think the 80's are crucial- the rise of the nostalgia industry, Reaganism and the insistence on the family as the defacto political unit. Re: Jameson's architectural point, the reaction against modernist architecture degrading the 'fabric of the traditional city and its neighborhood culture' was also the first point where America at large cared for architecture to begin with. 40 years post war the self evidence of American exceptionalism wanes, accelerated by Vietnam and 70's economic stagnation, and we have a collective waking up moment to a culture that never invested in the trappings of the traditional to start, at least not to the level of other parts of the world. The american inferiority complex w/r/t europe could come into play here.
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chava
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Isn't he a Swede living in Japan? Japan, of course, being one of the most racist of places on the planet.
luka
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This is why we were talking about Terminator and Robocop. Reagan invoking a mythical 50s/early 60s mirrored by Trump invoking a mythical 80s.
forclosure
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yeah but Trump's mythical 80s was equal parts Wall Street and Escape from New York if we're gonna make film references here
sus
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Jane Jacobs is a starting point for many of these arguments!
sus
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I was purposefully excluding Craner