http://www.newinfluencer.com A blog about social media, culture and technology Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.newinfluencer.com/mediapedia/frederic-jameson/comment-page-1/#comment-63982 The Bogside Artists Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:10:38 +0000 http://www.newinfluencer.com/?page_id=224#comment-63982 Doesn't Jameson know that sometimes " a cigar is just a cigar" and that there are any number of definitions of that obscure concept "postmodernism". As for schizophrenia you are on the outside looking in or on the inside looking out and as with death I would suggest these are two radically different experiences. We are bogged down with concepts that is our trouble and continually generate more and more to confuse ourselves even further. THE FOLLOWING “This very triviality of everyday life in late capitalism is itself the desperate situation against which all the formal solutions, the strategies and subterfuges, of high culture as well as of mass culture, emerge: how to project the illusion that things still happen, that events still exist, that there are still stories to tell, in a situation in which the uniqueness and the irrevocability of private destinies and of individuality itself seem to have evaporated?” IS TRANSLATED INTO COMMON SENSE THUS We are fat but bored and pissed off. We are seemingly less important to ourselves and eachother with little to talk about. Doesn’t Jameson know that sometimes ” a cigar is just a cigar” and that there are any number of definitions of that obscure concept “postmodernism”. As for schizophrenia you are on the outside looking in or on the inside looking out and as with death I would suggest these are two radically different experiences. We are bogged down with concepts that is our trouble and continually generate more and more to confuse ourselves even further. THE FOLLOWING
“This very triviality of everyday life in late capitalism is itself the desperate situation against which all the formal solutions, the strategies and subterfuges, of high culture as well as of mass culture, emerge: how to project the illusion that things still happen, that events still exist, that there are still stories to tell, in a situation in which the uniqueness and the irrevocability of private destinies and of individuality itself seem to have evaporated?”
IS TRANSLATED INTO COMMON SENSE THUS
We are fat but bored and pissed off. We are seemingly less important to ourselves and eachother with little to talk about.

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