photography
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon Mar 5 12:24:13 CST 2007
Though by now I'd call this thread "Photography, Phonography,
Pornography"
"... the 'falsity' of Pynchonian pornographies lies
not in their rituals of dismemberment but in their
fetishistic reassemblies, not in their cutting up of
organic (w)holes but in their recomposition of
inorganic wholes that fetishize the very idea of
organic wholes. At the very least, we should be wary
of endorsing the book's various depictions of
nostalgia, return, 'Diasporas running backwards' (GR
737); ideally, we should also be wary of approaching
Gravity's Rainbow as if fragmentation were a problem
to be solved by critical intervention ..." (p. 251)
"Interestingly, all formats seem to follow the same path.
I always say that it's easier to encode than to decode.
It's only recently that we've been truly able to get off the
disc everything that was on there. And there's still a lot
of that going on with digital. . . ."
Michael Hobson, Absolute Sound February 2007, pg 160
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