Jan
10
A new, more austere culture emerging?
Filed Under Poegles
An essay by Reed Johnson in the LA Times, via the Austin-American Statesman: ”But an incipient American (counter)culture might be emerging, based on evolving notions of community, transparency, an emphasis on cultural recycling (fabric scraps, music samples) and a growing interest in the world east of Long Island and west of Hawaii. In art, movies, fashion and Internet social networking sites, we can see the vague outlines of such a culture taking shape, less idealistic but maybe more pragmatic than the Hippie Utopianism of the 1960s.”
Perhaps recycling scraps of text from internet search results into poetry is a part of this trend. Maybe.
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