The caocaphony of the efferent dissolution of the New Digital Media

Socio-Political Rants

I just like this paragraph describing the phenomenon of publishing multiple realities that we are all now part of because how many big words can you fit in and actually have it make sense? And how many free papers filled with advertising of 1-900-numbers, Wanted tri-curious dairy substitute fetishist, and dodgy apartments that fit 9 people in a three bedroom space will allow their staff to write like that? The LA weekly of Course. I love the LA weekly.

Throughout the ’90s, thousands of disaffected youth, disenfranchised from materialist culture, found themselves unsupervised and at the controls of a panoply of new digital media. Almost overnight, billboard modification became a high art. Erotic glitches started to pop up in video games and DVDs. And the Internet hosted an explosion of parallel realities, political by default in their divergence from the narrowing strictures of corporate media agendas. Here was a new creative medium with unfathomable potential political impact, unconstrained by the reactionary dismissiveness and crypto-fascist academic hermeticism that have effectively eliminated politics from the art world since the mid-’70s.

The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming!
By Doug Harvey LA Weekly Writer
Fri Sep 24, 6:57 PM ET