michael gurstein on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:57:44 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Riot as Performance Art |
Patrick, A couple of futher points... As several of the commentators on your most interesting blogpost noted, I don't think the "riot" had very much to do with the game/loss/Canucks... My guess is that it would have happened in much the same way had the Canucks won although the age demographic might have shifted slightly with more older folks going into the streets (and then rapidly retreating... Also, the set pieces with the police--them attacking and folks running/resisting/fighting was most certainly "spectacle". However, the role of cameras and their links into broader FB/SMS/Youtube distribution-- the posing, the self-posing, the staging and so on and so on was I think, a very significant (new) element broadening out the notion of the spectacle -- this wasn't just about the gaze it was equally about the self-regard involved in taking a totally exposed (to the world) picture of yourself with a cell phone in front of a burning police car (the half page size picture on the Vancouver section of the nationa newspaper -- the Globe and Mail). It is "spectacle" but I think a good deal more. Best, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:patrick@teamsandwich.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:09 PM To: michael gurstein Cc: Nettime-L Subject: Re: <nettime> Riot as Performance Art Riot as spectacle ... Spectacular Vancouver conquers itself # 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://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org