entertainment
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Seeing a movie last night, I thought about the 'thingness' of being a private investigator in 70s L.A. The localization of character within, not what we'd call identity, but something more material, like the webbed matter of constitutive culture. Being a private investigator in 70s L.A. was a thing. It had a texture of movement and behavior distinct from being, for example. a cop in 70's L.A. And so, when a private investigator met a cop, the encounter had a friction of a particular profile, the product of a distinct, esoteric, materially localized cultural grammar.
I think that what I clung to was this institutionalized heterogeneity, this organizing around hard shape. This was the way you were in the world in the 70s, a thing (at least if you are to trust the films, which I do), and I thought, did that make you more or less of a person that what we are now?
I think that what I clung to was this institutionalized heterogeneity, this organizing around hard shape. This was the way you were in the world in the 70s, a thing (at least if you are to trust the films, which I do), and I thought, did that make you more or less of a person that what we are now?