As nothing totally worthy of interest is currently happening, this update will be about an interview with Russian novelist Viktor Pelevin I just read in a French magazine and that made me grin for some reason; near to considerations on the survival of dead empires as zombie-like entities of pantagruelian size and on the exercise in creativity that is reading comics written in a foreign language, the following confidence (the translation from french is mine, sorry for the mess):
"Myself, I quited watching TV 1998 - and I don't miss it. At first, I was sort of proud of having done so - until I realized I was afflicted with every symptom of internet addiction, and that it was, like, getting rid of gonorrhea by catching syphilis - my apologies for using such a metaphor, but genital-linked metaphors always cone first to my mind when I'm thinking about media. TV broadcasting functions as a phallic organ does: it penetrates one's insides with its rigidly structured, preformed, unmodifiable programs. Internet, on the opposite, is a vaginal thing: it stays passive until your active searching reveals its idiosyncrasies... and, if you spend some time with it, it will help you understanding the exact meaning of the overused term "vagina dentata" ."
"Myself, I quited watching TV 1998 - and I don't miss it. At first, I was sort of proud of having done so - until I realized I was afflicted with every symptom of internet addiction, and that it was, like, getting rid of gonorrhea by catching syphilis - my apologies for using such a metaphor, but genital-linked metaphors always cone first to my mind when I'm thinking about media. TV broadcasting functions as a phallic organ does: it penetrates one's insides with its rigidly structured, preformed, unmodifiable programs. Internet, on the opposite, is a vaginal thing: it stays passive until your active searching reveals its idiosyncrasies... and, if you spend some time with it, it will help you understanding the exact meaning of the overused term "vagina dentata" ."
morgan:
