Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to DCBCauchi,
society can fuck right off.
along with its wallet, mate
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I just think society has a stake in how the commerce of art works.
Well put.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Yes, the State funds some artistic activities. And quite right. However, that does not give anyone a stake in the work that results other than the artist(s) involved.
Try getting public funding for anything else without some strings attached. I agree they should be strings overseen by people with enough expertise, and only related to the (minimal) public interest components of the work.
And yes, all things considered it might be most effective just to hand over the dosh with no conditions at all. Oddly we don't hear that argument in other areas of public funding.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
information is not all
Sure isn't. Knowing where it fits in and what you can do with it is far more valuable. And that's probably where more of the work will be moving to.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
It's all content :)
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Then what are you arguing against in what I've been saying?
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
it was a form of knowledge
That's all I'm saying - look to the bigger picture about value exchange and results. Whole domains like librarianship and scholarship were advanced through those monastic efforts.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
respond to a cultural need to preserve and enhance texts that they regarded as valuable
They were preserving *knowledge* that was valuable. Let's not fetishise its form.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
There is no reason why we can't mobilise resources to help professions like journalism respond to the current technological shifts
Who's saying that? I totally agree none of this is in a vacuum. We must engage and shape the changes we want. However, it is certainly bigger than our own local context or arrangements, and any answers we come up with have to recognise that.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
when's the last time you heard a piece of music that made you think this is really new, as opposed to this is really good?
Dubstep, on both counts :)