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Originally Posted by ni'k
in the past - scenes congregated around particular geography - but that wont be as much of a constraint in the future. punks transported records from america to the uk and back - black flag blazed a trail across america and new bands formed in their wake as they went - but now we dont have to wait as long for our emotional reactions to art to alter it - soon there will be no barriers of participation.
in the past our ability to interact with each other was limited to being in a very close proximity to each other - within eye/earshot at least. our evolutionary path leads us closer and closer. we are entering into a mass hallucinatory pyschosis - the type of artistic expieriance that will make what we're doing now seem as primitive as a cave painting. look around this early primtive internet and you will notice that most of what you see is just a image of a previous physical format of media. websites look like newspapers - pdf files are basically pictures of peices of paper. this represents a transition from physicality which is the ultimate destiny of human evolution. if, like me, you believe that humans are destined to evolve into a reality that our dreams are only tiny hints at, a reality that has laws of physics similar to the ones our dreams have now, then the current technological possibilites are surely exciting. but it is surely a luddite stance to simply recreate cds books radio and tv on a computer. yet are only beginning to shatter the restrictive boundaries between them. ive often thought of tv as (government and celebrity oligarchy) prescribed imagination for those that can't (or are too frightened too) hallucinate during the day. we should see our current techno/artistic social interactions as a primitive tool we are clumsily fumbling about with in an effort to ignite the fire of mass hallucinatory pyschosis in ways that are increasingly imaginable. or something. yeah.
also as a footnote to this i was thinking about what i said before about people dancing to the jam. it seems that the desire to maintain an image of ourselves is one of the most important things in this media age. but imagine how our images will be able to be totally shattered and eviscerated of all constancy and normality in the type of expeiriances i have been describing - imagine dancing in the jam on yr webcam and having people edit and splice you into their jam videos/people edit yr image and play it back to you - people send you videos of their own images trying to have sex with you - imagine the narcissitic potential haha! post a pic of yrself naked and watch loads of people edit it with their software and send you back videos of them fucking you haha!
in the spirit of such jamming im not gonna reread and reedit that into something more coherent until later so thats the first burst.
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this is the funniest fucking post on this board!