Posts by Sacha
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Paul, your understanding of art really seems nothing more than tired, self-interested, colonial modernism. Just listen to yourself:
I am a professional in this business
not part of the Art World, the global network of institutions which defines what is art
most commonly held by the very people who have the most mana in this matter
All this talk of things being meaningful is no more than noble savagery
I'm sure as a modernist you'll understand when I ask you to come back when you actually have something original to offer - or the intelligence to listen.
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which you weren't discussing
Please do read what I actually said - there is limited "social issues" coverage just as there are overall systemic limits. They'll hardly shift resource from celeb chef survivor to news and docos unless there is pressure and probably funding carrots. Abundance is a feature of the digital online.
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And I think Martin's piece expressed that well
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It's not necessarily a zero sum game though. I'd much rather the media put more time into both of them and less into Rock of Love IV or Who loves New York, or whatever is on this week.
Please do explain how conventional media is not zero sum - there are hardly unlimited production or distribution resources/channels.
I agreed earlier we could focus on all the issues mentioned by diverting effort from others as you suggest - but that won't happen on its own:
the resources could cover all those areas you mention - so long as we can persuade those in control to ignore some others instead
Let's get persuading.
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I believe that noticing difference and responding tribally is understandably primate - but it's what we choose to do with those impulses that reveal our humanity. We know deep down we're better than that.
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If only fair access was purely about justice. However, we can agree those are all groups of people whose lives and potential we systematically waste.
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I respect your stake in this, but unless you think there are unlimited media resources then frankly, yes, there is competition for public attention.
I'm hoping we can use online to change that (one of my focuses this year), but traditional media and policy channels still shape too much discussion - or lack of it.
However, the resources could cover all those areas you mention - so long as we can persuade those in control to ignore some others instead.
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Sofie, I believe the point was that being registered for tax is a measure that decriminalisation of sex work has succeeded, compared with the dark days when it was at least partly in the black economy. I hope that's what it was, anyway.
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You picked a greeaat day for it.. day for it
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Thank you, Martin - not meant as an attack in any way, and very much conditional on that previous thread as local context.
As you know, one of the groups routinely stigmatised in what little media coverage we get is disabled people. I'd far rather see energies go into improving that when major social and media institutions are paying so little attention. Thanks for your efforts already in that direction.