Rana Dasgupta on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:16:15 +0200 (CEST)


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: <nettime> The Next Idea of the Artist - essay


thanks calin for this interesting mail.

eating, yes.

the intensely regulated society wistful for an outside?  isn't this the 
godfather thing - the heroic death of the other ethos?

and yes, the US is particularly hungry for the spiritual invigoration 
that comes from wild humanity, but isn't this a constant theme of 
western modernity?  making operas about the life forms you have just killed?

R

Calin Dan wrote:

> While I agree with the stand point and argumentation of the essay (although 
> I do not see any cynicism involved there), I wonder if the whole 
> demonstration couldn't be nuanced further into a more complete picture of 
> the present state of affairs.
 <...>


#  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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org