Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks. Gil Scott-Heron - 'Where Did The Night Go' Platform Politricks. December 13th, 2010 orthogonal image copied from some website or other I’ve been working on this monstruo post since last January, and hinting at it here and there, making it feel all the more urgent to finish though I haven’t had the time to tie it up. And yet, what has made finally publishing this post so hard is also what makes finishing it all the more pressing: the seemingly unending array of reasons to be suspicious and cautious toward the so-called “platforms” of the net.
The issue has, of course, come into more intense relief than perhaps ever before with the last week’s commotion around Wikileaks and the way that what many of us understand as, in some sense, “public” “platforms” hosting “free” “speech” have been exposed as anything but public or free. The mix tape. Deezer - Music on demand, free. LA BLOGOTHEQUE. 'Too bizarre, Mozart!' After their demise, artists are at the mercy of history.
The ones who survive are the ones who are malleable, who can ride the shifting tides of ideology, ideals, theory, fashion, catastrophe, and shibboleth that constitute the zeitgeist. The survivors, however, don't always ride those tides unscathed. MUST WATCH VIDEO: Reflections of war on Gaza, Aljazeera Parts 1-