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"Bad novels/movies etc. make for good gaming"

Started by Pierce Inverarity, April 28, 2008, 02:43:08 AM

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droog

The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

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Pierce Inverarity

Still hiding your vacuity behind the one-line quip?

Or do you have a contribution to make?

Last time you didn't. You chickened out.

Will you chicken out again?
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

droog

I know you are, but what am I? When did I last see you put any effort in?
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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Pierce Inverarity

Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

In the late modern era, is there now something like "reverse kitsch", i.e. middlebrow aping the art of "the people", perhaps out of a longing for "real culture" as in "keepin' it real"?

Pierce Inverarity

Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

Gangster rap marketed to and purchased by middle class white boys.

EDIT: also, perhaps, New Age repackaging of third-world religious/tribal belief.

Pierce Inverarity

No, that's primitivism, broadly conceived. Primitivism = downwardly / backwardly mobile (failed effort to plug into rawness / spirituality). Kitsch = upwardly mobile (failed effort to produce high art or lit, e.g. Neil Gaiman's novels).
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

flyingmice

Quote from: Pierce InverarityNo, that's primitivism, broadly conceived. Primitivism = downwardly / backwardly mobile (failed effort to plug into rawness / spirituality). Kitsch = upwardly mobile (failed effort to produce high art or lit, e.g. Neil Gaiman's novels).

Which is why the rabbit referred to it as "reverse kitch" I think... :D

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arminius

Yes, at this remove, I think it's just a lack of familiarity with the standard terms.

droog

Quote from: Pierce InverarityQED #2.
I wonder who you think you're demonstrating to, dummkopf.
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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