As Ken knows, I have 'a dog in this fight' so I have to respond.
> the pressure to keep upping the noise, or the art moving to be more
> outrageous and transgressive expressions (a love story is not enough, it
> needs to be 'erotic') in order to attract attention.
Since Rae's memoir has been branded 'Erotica' by her publishers, a mistake,
IMHO,if on no other level than it limits the marketing effort, this issue is
close to my heart (& other parts).
So the erotic = noise. Well if you look throughout history, art & other
venues, the erotic has been an integral aspect of peoples expression. And
celebrated I might add. Except in the good ole USA. This country has had an
extreme aversion to any expression of the sexual, so much so that for a long
time the expression of the sexual was criminalized.
Maybe in this society the erotic = noise but mores the pity.
--
Jim Hicks
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> From: Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:13:47 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [BP] The Last Thing We Ever Needed
>
>> Saturated doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
>>
> Dan,
>
> Well, I certainly appreciate Rypkema's dilemma. Thanks for that link, by
> the way.
>
> Saturated may not scratch the surface but I don't have time or energy to
> dig deeper holes. A book I have been reading that talks about the
> evolutionary context of 'art' (and histo presto as a social valuation
> has a lot to do with art) expressed that humans are wired to ignore what
> they see too much of and therefore tend to focus attention on the
> anomalies that occur within their personal field of perception -- thus
> the pressure to keep upping the noise, or the art moving to be more
> outrageous and transgressive expressions (a love story is not enough, it
> needs to be 'erotic') in order to attract attention. We can drown in
> media exposure but at the same time the human creature may only absorb
> and pay attention to a small portion of the noise.
>
> As to Web 2.0 I notice some folks on Facebook feel like the
> advertisements are right in their face. I rarely if ever see them at
> all. I am looking for substantive connections with people. Yet at the
> same time people often feel hollow and empty about their online social
> interactions. It is an odd conundrum as internet social media won't work
> if folks feel that they are too much disconnected from each other, yet
> at the same time the hosts need to monetize the environment, or at least
> maintain the illusion of a promise of an economy, in order to keep it alive.
>
> ][<en
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