nicey nicey (what have happened?)

dear freakonomists, is this still creative industry, approximatly mid nineties?
southwest toronto or mideast bologna? worried, scrupolous but still hungry?
how does it differ from the tactical shootouts of
3 books-a-year-net-theory-once-to-be-called-activism-and-before-media-theory?
IT still struggles, IT still fights for its voice, its ambitious, ambigous,
a wanna be upperculturereal entering talk bot. aren’t we infrastructure yet?
think about it. think about all the dressed monkeys, last sunday at the
video screening. la la la. well done. one monkey has a degree,
another a lobotomy, anotherone ended in whitney or tate. monkeys
nevertheless, well trained ones indeed. some listen to the name of deleuze and guattari,
some just mumble prememetic utter, others achieved some mastery
of the derrida minuetti. humble expectance on the aristocratic table of
prof. markov III. wittgenstein’s laughter sounds just too fakey. maybe
he found out a way to think with his ass? you ought to be left
in los angeles with an overdose of double-cream-something, waiting
for your exam-deadline-admission-competition tomorrow. yes, you did it,
escaped the lab, and today we can say, you are a well trained monkey indeed.
welcome to culture. post the post, avant l’etre, cultural stuttering in supreme
virtuosity, playing that classic rock theme, 1020 years later with stunning
verve, cultural kindusttry, coming back from dhelio or prague, pompously
lcokkness discguised as political attitude. you think there’s anything militant in
“subverting” more than your grannies dvd-collection on myspace?
F. ONE:To what extent do our gestures in visual culture get watered
down, recuperated and sold back to us? F. TWO:Can this be avoided?


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