Karl-Erik Tallmo on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:48:00 +0200 (CEST) |
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At 15.46 -0400 06-04-24, Alan Sondheim wrote: >What is it that people speak about, in these days of dead-film, dead- >cinema? It is not what people spoke about. Cinema is what they spoke >about. Cinema is history, networking is speaking, video is what they speak >about. Listen to a conversation, well it is not the same conversation, it >is always already a future anterior, already a dead conversation, people >speaking from the dead. Among living networks, video, living performance, >organisms. The dead are a carapace on the living. Cinema is popular, is >always popular, if not film, the enormous screen, eye, darkened theater, >imagination, comfort of infinite speakers. I somehow come to think of this McLuhan quotation: "The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land." (The Medium is the Massage, 1967) /Karl-Erik Tallmo ________________________________________________________________ KARL-ERIK TALLMO, poet, writer, artist, journalist MAGAZINE: http://art-bin.com ARTWORK, WRITINGS etc.: http://www.nisus.se/tallmo/ ________________________________________________________________ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net