Mar 21 2009: carl moore: "Does culture belong to the participants, or the creators?"
The distinction between cultural "consumers" or "participants" and cultural "creators" is artificial. With regard to culture, by definition the participants are the creators.
As my wife likes to tell her students, not-acting is a choice, and choices are actions.
Art is a whole different question. Art is not culture.
Jun 12 2007: BTW, this appears to be a rehash/refinement of Brand's Long Now talk from April 2005 [13.6MB MP3]. That one, as I recall, was a little less happy-nonsense and more about the practical ramifications.
Jun 12 2007: "There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works."
Because if you don't (or can't), you die.
Brand is right, I think, about the reasons people move to cities. What he misses is their capacity for self-delusion in their efforts to justify that move, post facto.
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A comment on Talk: Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity
The distinction between cultural "consumers" or "participants" and cultural "creators" is artificial. With regard to culture, by definition the participants are the creators.
As my wife likes to tell her students, not-acting is a choice, and choices are actions.
Art is a whole different question. Art is not culture.
A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand on squatter cities
A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand on squatter cities
Because if you don't (or can't), you die.
Brand is right, I think, about the reasons people move to cities. What he misses is their capacity for self-delusion in their efforts to justify that move, post facto.