Aloha,
On 12/4/2005 at 6:10 PM Sabina Magliocco wrote:
>Another important factor is the enormous amount of
>information avaialble to middle-class people through books,
>periodicals, TV and the Internet. In Europe and North
>America, those with means can easily get information from
>just about any cultural, ritual or magical tradition. A
>great deal of borrowing takes place through these mediated
>forms. This kind of metissage can be more problematic,
>since media of any kind (including ethnographies) are not
>without representational bias.
Here we might contrast the *pure* with the *practical and playful*
approach to information. Ease of access, of participation, and
of dissemination appear to favor the *practical and playful*
approach. (Even academic genres and conventions have adopted
to new information arenas like the internet.)
>From a more or less critical perspective, I think that we need to
keep in mind forms/techniques such as pastiche, collage, assemblage,
and similar applications of--serendipitous!?!--juxtaposition as we
consider the ways that information moves in modern cultures.
Or in the global pan-culture.
Musing *Interdisciplinary* Involves Juxtaposing Information
According To Conventions Of *Academic* Art & Subculture! Rose,
Pitch
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