Who gets to push the buttons?
Posted: March 30th, 2009 | Filed under: Mobilities at the Interface |Here’s another sequence from a sketch for a video project based on my recent paper with Ned O’Gorman. Thinking here about who gains “legitimate” access to consoles and instruments, and how that figures in to who gets to be “modern” or not. Again, just a quick and dirty sketch here, bad voiceover and all.
The phrase “mediated relationship” resonates a lot with my current obsession with my own unemployment. I am discovering that I view personal contracts for work as less legitimate than anonymous, market mediated contracts, and that others also view market mediated work and pay as more legitimate, easier to understand and seek, than directly paying me for any service or product, unmediated by a website, a third party, etc. The more I resemble a business, Western-style, not street-style, the better.
Lara, I was having fun following some of your threads and when i per chance read your comment, i couldn’t help but write you.
the same words came out of my mouth to a grand extent when i was much younger. having worked in many worlds i found the responses i was struggling with to emanate from my rearing in N.E. Ohio. steel mfg utilizing the canal systems of yesteryear.
despite my influences, when i found myself in the know, i felt free to make choices that really match my make-up. i had thought that the world around me all those years perceived life in the same way. (if it isn’t 8-5 it isn’t a real job) Over the next decade i found that the world really wasn’t composed of those polar opposites. But instead, the muddy gray area.
today at nearing 50 i see the myths i and others fed my psyche. Great to be free, jump in! It is what it is and all of it pays, and costs…
coastal calif.
I remember this from Syracuse. Slim Pickens is the opposite of the laws of cool. A nice cowboy counterpoint.