Contemporary painting and Indian politics

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Comedian Patton Oswalt is fretting about the culture-destroying age of "Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever" ("etewaf"). Which is what philosopher Martin Heidegger meant by "Gestell" as the "essence" of technology. (This means Patton Oswalt is a Nazi.) More..

[url="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/all/1"]Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die, Part1[/url]

[url="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/2/"]Part2[/url]



A few interesting points in this piece by a western comedian.



1.Authenticity of experience is same as sharing an inside joke (or a wink) with a few.

2.Sharing the same with all trivializes the experience.

3.The latter is "selling out" in the western dynamic.

4.The "excavation" and cataloguing of such experiences is not nostalgia but quite integral to the dynamic of western creativity. When the various niches are considered together as a phenomenon, the dynamic appears to be all-consuming.