1 Mar 12:24
Re: Internet2: Orchestrating the End of the Internet?
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:05:35 -0500, Jon Ippolito <ji@...> wrote: >This hardware intervention effectively destroys even the possibility of >fair use, since artists and educators cannot transform, parody, or >criticize what they cannot record. [snip] which is why the MPAA will >do its best to disarm the technology by installing Digital Rights >Management directly in its routers to stop interesting content from >ever getting into the pipeline. Do you really feel that Hollywood and the American recording industry produce much interesting content? Is there really much to be gained by transforming, parodying or criticising it? Perhaps in 1964, when Susan Sontag wrote _Notes on "Camp"_, she could legitimately see kitsch as an opportunity to create a liberating aesthetic. But for some time now, camp has been the dominant mode of expression of the culture industry as a whole; it has been co-opted as an instrument of hegemony. The desire to remix insipid music, or parody idiotic films that are already the purest self-parody, plays into the hands of the culture industry's own ever more intense navel-gazing. There's nothing liberating in producing ever more clever parodies of Scooby Doo. American consumer culture is already a closed system. The more self-referential it becomes, the harder it is for Americans to imagine that anything exists outside the US. For Americans, the war in Iraq isn't happening in Iraq, because they can't imagine Iraq; for them, it's happening in the imaginary space of the American culture industry, framed by the reassuringly brutal language of advertising, with its growling male voices, punchy editing and snippets of heavy(Continue reading)
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