Rob Wittig on 6 Feb 2001 16:14:33 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> review of thomas frank's one market under god (by naomi klein) |
Wonder how much T. Frank gets into the emotional-fictional-narrative modes of the "marketing of the market . . . " The thing that fascinates me is to see how the market is displayed using familiar narrative structures from other worlds: 1) sports, first of all, the great male soap opera 2) CNN-style "breaking news," specifically the "unfolding tragedy" genre (cf. the Chicagoland shootings of yesterday) And it fascinates me to muse how TV's "Survivor" is a total-fiction-work in, arguably, the exact same genre as the "market" And it makes me, more than ever, eager to see how the monster/bastard child of the sacrosanct and pious National Football League and the flagrantly fraudulent World Wrestling Federation --- the nascent XFL --- is going to fare in the North American myth market I can't quite articulate it yet but I'm convinced the XFL is going to give us clues about the future of the stock-market-as-narrative stay tuned Rob Wittig _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold