Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The devil speaks fashion

worth a gander and a ponder...
i imagine this relates to any design discipline, or more loosely, to any expert model of organization, which, if understood in a pluralistic sense (ala wikipedia or the java development, etc.), might be speculated to be the future political model. do we believe in this model, that it is not possible to exempt oneself from certain expert systems, that they are so ingrained in the fabric of our culture, that one cannot participate in culture without being contaminated in some way, indirect but profound? and to what extent can we rely, as designers, on the "trickle-down" economics of style to justify the speculative flights of fancy that play out in the academy and the gallery?

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