Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Some quick writing - an attempt to articulate:


What is this culture/ ideology/ paradigm gap/ vacuum/ platform that i am talking about? the condition? the state?


Modernity is not an original idea in our context. it is an imposed ideology that has been constructed before it has been realized. the paradigm that is imposed is one structured and organized externally. from a consumer's point of view. something to be achieved, aspired towards, consumed, conformed to. it ha become a so-called global language as has culture. every 'utility' is aspirational. no longer organic no longer natural. but the people who are consuming this ideology and believe themselves to be a part of it ( unconsciously or consciously) do not necessarily belong. they are built from phenomena that are more original, organic, gross, and pertinent to survival, in a system that needs coping with, instead of aiding the process of coping with life. it adds a layer between what is 'naturally intended' to be lived and what is 'wanted' to be lived. a single step ladder becomes a two-step ladder. where it replaces nature, and natural environments. the environment becomes something to aspire to, not understand, internalize, but aspire or conform to. the disconnect is then what embodies the experience. where the utility or functionality is the only primary basic connection. beyond which it is only the disconnect that makes common ground. ideally this should make good common ground for the contrasts between the 'real' and the 'unreal' to show. the contrast making clearer the difference between nature and simulacra. but the elements have been in our collective conscious too long. we now describe nature using inorganic unnatural terms. the consumer is not a self-aware critic. but a critic in part. affect is visible but not effect. fragments make the contrast clear. the state of the visual elements reflect the state of the consumer. the state of the environment reflect the state of the inhabitant. the presence, the lack, the misuse, the use, the interpretations, the seeing, the unseeing, the seen, the unseen, the redundant, the crucial,the decorative, the planned and the unplanned, the 'organic' and the inorganic, the meaningful, the ignored, the unknown, the foreign, the indigenous, the accepted and the unaccepted, the spoken and the unspoken, the agreed, the common, the consensus, the usual, the unusual, the cultural and the cross-cultural, the pragmatic and the quixotic, the organization and the chaos, the lone and the mob, the singular and the numbers, the patterns and the aberrations, the uniform and the freaks, the normal and the abnormal, the old and the new, the lost and the found the known and the unknown, the paths and the mazes, the corners and the centers, the formal and the informal, the understood and the misunderstood, the rules, and ones which are broken, the ground and the underground, the individual and the aspiration and all the things that are silent witnesses and bear the signs.


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