In a way, some of the musicians said, the situation has come full circle. As in the 1980s, they can no longer get their music played on the air, not because of government censors but because their countries are now so fully integrated into the global pop machine that stations prefer to play the same Britney Spears and Beyoncé songs and MTV videos as everyone else.
pgwp:
The idea of willfully putting Radiohead on just for the hell of it elicits a kind of mental groan, like I’m getting ready to sit down and watch a Tarkovsky film. Get ready to experience a Work of Art.
Wallace in “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky”:
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
and
One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize that the quickest way to kill an author’s vitality for potential readers is to present that author ahead of time as “great” or “classic”. Because then the author becomes for the students like medicine or vegetables, something the authorities have declared “good for them” that they “ought to like”, at which point the students’ nictitating membranes come down, and everyone just goes through the requisite motions of criticism and paper-writing without feeling one real or relevant thing. It’s like removing all oxygen from a room before trying to start a fire.
lalitree:
“I say it’s time we take a stand against technologically-enhanced isolation and anomie. It’s time we relearn how to shut our yaps, listen to others and put that pluribus and unum back where they belong. And in the best U.S.A. fashion I say that we do this via expensive gadgets and monetizable web services. Below is a list of modest proposals for Infinite Jest-inspired solutions for life in our present-day techno-dystopia.”
— http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/techno-curmudgeonly-solutions-for-life-in-a-wallacian-dystopia/
So many IJ-based blogs! I mean, here is one of a person documenting his/her experience going clean while reading the book.
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