Curators Assess Damage to Capitol Artworks in Wake of Pro-Trump Mob
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https://www.artforum.com/news/curators-assess-damage-to-capitol-artworks-in-wake-of-pro-trump-mob-84883 ... not that any Americans care about art, of course. >8^D I also found this article interesting: Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/11/video-games-music-youth-culture I've noticed that during my time spent on Discord and Twitch. Boomers, GenXers, and perhaps many Millenials wax on about how some song indexes their emotions in one way or another ... or the skill demonstrated by someone like Jack White or Eric Clapton ... or the math exhibited by Tool or Bach ... but Kids These Days seem to reference old video games when talking about their emotional indexing. A new side-scroller will come out and all the kids talk about is how it (fails to) make them feel like they did all the way back in 2017 when they played XYZ. One streamer has an entire discussion on how to choose DRM-free musical scores for your videos and streaming sessions ... [sigh] music is dead. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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It's true. Often I blame industry for thinking that music (and movies,
etc...) was something to be owned rather than the product of culture and therefore part of our cultural legacy and endowment. I cannot help but feel that this, as well as the boring and homogenous nature of the media cycle, was what net-neutrality activists were on about. sigh... Many of my closest friends are gamers and every now and then they pull me in on a discord chat. We play "Among Us" or I watch them play "WoW". When I asked one friend about movies he simply said that he would rather do something where he had the agency to affect the outcome. I was reminded that before I knew how to play an instrument or taught myself to draw, that the best I could do was to dream that I was someone who could play like Eric Clapton or whomever. This passive satisfaction and desire to be (or be like) another person is maybe better left dead. OTOH, speaking to a cultural endowment, my childhood was spent in two cities with amazing art museums, orchestras, and that *subtle disruptor* that is architecture. I cannot emphasize enough the impact that seeing master works has had on me, the importance of witnessing what has been done before and what humans can accomplish. May videogames reach such heights. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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Jon wrote: This passive satisfaction and desire to be (or be like) another person is maybe better left dead. No, not left dead. To be dug up and dissected, and probed in every way. It should be left stinking on the examination table until we understand it. It is our side of “charisma”; without that part in us, Charisma would be impossible. Trump would not be possible. Nick PS: Schadenfreude alert. Stephen Colbert, whilst displaying a photo of Ted Cruz: “Is that Ted Cruz or is it the bloated corpse of drowned woodchuck??” Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- It's true. Often I blame industry for thinking that music (and movies, etc...) was something to be owned rather than the product of culture and therefore part of our cultural legacy and endowment. I cannot help but feel that this, as well as the boring and homogenous nature of the media cycle, was what net-neutrality activists were on about. sigh... Many of my closest friends are gamers and every now and then they pull me in on a discord chat. We play "Among Us" or I watch them play "WoW". When I asked one friend about movies he simply said that he would rather do something where he had the agency to affect the outcome. I was reminded that before I knew how to play an instrument or taught myself to draw, that the best I could do was to dream that I was someone who could play like Eric Clapton or whomever. This passive satisfaction and desire to be (or be like) another person is maybe better left dead. OTOH, speaking to a cultural endowment, my childhood was spent in two cities with amazing art museums, orchestras, and that *subtle disruptor* that is architecture. I cannot emphasize enough the impact that seeing master works has had on me, the importance of witnessing what has been done before and what humans can accomplish. May videogames reach such heights. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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