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That Ballard stuff about modern life essentially being an enormous novel is probably why art's no longer relevant. Trump and Brexit and Q have replaced the books and films and paintings.
 

luka

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That Ballard stuff about modern life essentially being an enormous novel is probably why art's no longer relevant. Trump and Brexit and Q have replaced the books and films and paintings.

well not replaced, just joined on the same plane of fiction
 

luka

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films and television shows and computer games play an enromous role in shaping peoples understanding of reality and themselves and so on. they provide mythic templates and so on
 

luka

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there's been more and more a movement towards people trying to hear 'it' talking. no one wants to hear from some boring personlaity telling you about their deep throughts anymore. they want to hear 'it' the plasmate. living information. so like Dick said they look for it in the trash.
 

catalog

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This plasmate, its the same thing that grapejuice talks about with regard to Blake, seeing a throng of angels in the sun?

Reason, as a single vision, sees the prosaic Sun and compares it to a golden coin. The imagination, though, has double vision. It sees the golden disk yet it also witnesses the choir of heavenly angels that it contains. The imagination is the unlimited visionary capacity that we all possess. It is accessed by fully opening our senses.

 

entertainment

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a growing awareness that there is a set of rules that ALL creative expression presupposes. everything has a job to perform. what's your position in the dialectic? what's your job? reveal yourself! draw it out in in crystalline conceptual form.

think it has something to do with politics colonizing the aesthetic
 

luka

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Plasmate. Living information. The language speaking living word. PKD is always on about it.
 

catalog

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I think something different to what grapejuice is saying, he would surely have mentioned dick as well if it was the same thing.
 
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