As Gertrude Stein put it, "there is no there, there"; there is nothing left now but a swamp of cultural echoes and ghosts, gradually diffusing: even music now is flat, (literally) digital, a simulacrum, an endlessly repeating reflection of a reflection.
A powerful observation. The unending reflectivity of culture is definitely one of my favorite points of reference and something which occupies my brain many hours of the day. The "there" that "isn't there" is something that younger generations take as a given, though those of us (GenXers, mostly) who were born a little earlier can recall when this was not the case. My hope is that, with the present changing over to a new era, this type of observation, something that's been widely discussed for a while, though only in academic circles, can receive wider attention.
I love the emotions aroused by pieces like this. These words make me feel immense and damn microscopic at the same time, strong and extremely fragile.
Pleasantly abandoned to that feeling of uncertainty and vulnerabiliy.
As Gertrude Stein put it, "there is no there, there"; there is nothing left now but a swamp of cultural echoes and ghosts, gradually diffusing: even music now is flat, (literally) digital, a simulacrum, an endlessly repeating reflection of a reflection.
A powerful observation. The unending reflectivity of culture is definitely one of my favorite points of reference and something which occupies my brain many hours of the day. The "there" that "isn't there" is something that younger generations take as a given, though those of us (GenXers, mostly) who were born a little earlier can recall when this was not the case. My hope is that, with the present changing over to a new era, this type of observation, something that's been widely discussed for a while, though only in academic circles, can receive wider attention.