3 posts tagged “culture”
I think this watch is perfect, it's this perfect picture of the attraction of the industrial aesthetic, this desire to literally merge with the products we are creating, because manufactured goods have the potential to be unchanging, in a sense eternal. It preserves an image, a quality of line, while we age and wrinkle and sag and grow distracted, industry remains as a sort of nobler cousin in our mind: the Empire State Building, the Bay Bridge, the Porsche 911, each carries a sort of iconic quality that seems so much more lasting than the whims of culture and taste. Here too, then, this watch carries a suggestion of retreating into the industrial, of defining ourselves by something that seems a little more unchanging than our own personalities and tastes.
...and it looks fricken' cool...
Natch--popular culture: Transformers, Metropolis, Knight Rider, D.A.R.Y.L., Terminator series, we are in love with our machines, we want to be joined with them...
If love truly is going out of fashion, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each other's objects of reverence. . . . We will continue to fragment in this manner because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis's. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won't bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.
via MeFi
So is MC Frontalot
(differences in scale of course: seriousness of intent, different cultural positions of (dis)enfranchisement and need, gravity of discrimination)
