Energy Flush

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2009/05/culture-technology-energy-rave

I was going to do an FT post on this but my day is filling up rapidly so I thought I'd throw it to the wolves here instead.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think gaming & interactivity in general is the biggest counter-argument, given that his piece is all about detecting tech shift through textural rupture. But I don't really know anything about gaming.

[cis.livejournal.com]

from what i've read i think gaming would be not a counter-argt but a definite backup! petronia explains it a lot better than i could.

though maybe k-punk would be against gaming anyway as even the super interactive stuff is still pretty top-down (it's a lot harder to go out and make your own mmorpg! unless you do it the old-fashioned way).

[cis.livejournal.com]

and by old-fashioned i mean 'retro': you can go out and make yr own text-adventure game or MOO very easily but it's a self-conscious act of revivalism, it's like making a typewriter-and-glue fanzine, or like making compilation tapes with actual c90s, it's not where the kids are at.