0167 7547 5886 8611
“The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal:shock disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’ To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law.”
– David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram” (1993), via
Previous posts: I can has PMOG widget?, Passively Multiplayer, Gaia Online, Breaking Out Of Tabs, Over & over, Baby Hackers, and more in the archives.
Related posts: No related posts, and more in the archives.
Related posts: No related posts, and more in the archives.
Suttree Beatniks with better clothing, brought to you by Duncan Gough. About Archives Casual Game Dev Code Disclaimer EcoLocal Music Knows PMOG
Links for Monday, May 28th, 2007
free games @ freeloader.comhttp://www.freeloader.com/en/free_games/
Its a serious game you know! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!http://www.flickr.com/photos/thayer18/517547309/in/set-72157600276103648/
Amazon: Widgetizing Recommendationshttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_widgetizing_recommendations.php
GigaOM Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games «http://gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense/
Microformats Icons -- The brilliant work of Wolfgang Bartelmehttp://www.factorycity.net/projects/microformats-icons/
Mofo - Parse Microformats with Ruby [ruby] [gem] [mofo] [microformats]http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3750
Duncan's poker face on Flickr - Photo Sharing!http://www.flickr.com/photos/thayer18/517547545/in/set-72157600276103648/
firstworks: sql relay - sqlrelay persistent database connection pool pooling proxy load balance balancing odbc oracle mysql msql postgresql sybase db2 interbase sqlite access c++ perl DBD DBI python php zope ruby tcl java jni unix linux persistanthttp://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/ Links hosted by
del.icio.us
Suttree.com | let's have a baby and call it hotel illness