The prophetic genius of BLEEDING EDGE

[gary webb]

Yes, I remember revisiting this conversation sometime in March back when we
discussing Ernie's soliloquy, and Thomas sent me a link to discussions past
about this subject. This late capitalist world we inhabit, the digitization
of our lives, which is a long arc TP has been chronicling, but to furiously
raid a cliche, but an apt cliche (I Promise...) the bacchanalia of the
digital world presented in Bleeding Edge is contrasted with brutal reality
of life on the streets of NYC (Think of Nick Windust's pad) ... Once the
checks stop clearing, or whomever calls in the tab, the party's over, and
it's back to the streets or worse... In the cold hard light of dawn the
fraud becomes clear, the nascent fraud that underpins reality, it hearkens
back to Lang's Metropolis... at least the social stratification...

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> One aspect.
>
> All over the mid-world of intellectual chatter which I surf ( your mileage
> may vary), highlighted by an oft-cited cover story Harper's piece on how
> late capitalism money has driven all but the rich out of NY CITY,
>
> I remember the Plister who said, when we were reading it, Where are the
> Preterites?
>
> I think our group consensus was that P showed they were going, gone, from
> NYC. (Maxine working for $500 -- if I remember right--was sorta the last,
> so to suggest. )
>
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