>On Feb 7 Nic Musolino said: etc.
Some irony that the eighties' real-estate boom-boom was a
boon-boon for architecture school expansion, which in turn
provided academic petri dish agar for arch-lit-criterati
cultures. Like flesh eating bacteria deconstructing as they
chomp-chomp, cultures both contested and fed off of boom host:
faculty salaries, school rags, lecture series, exhibitions,
alumni gifts all flush with good time enzymes. Mea culpa.
At some point, crit culture, god bless, achieved an internal
sociology of critical-mass-in-numbers that allowed it to start
feeding off itself. Media opportunities, newly built and empty
museums, lectures, roster of the usual overexposed
personalities provided a trembling jocelyn edifice for self-
gratification. With jury panels willingly doing onan's
bidding, no need to find external in-the-world partners to
lubricate mind ventures.
Rampant careerism and commodification of theory so in evidence
in crit-cult these days seems tragically inimical to aims of
contesting market values. With 90's loss of easy bucks, with
funding pickings ever slimming, competition is deadly keen to
flog eyecatching gloss and earstroking talk products to zines
and deans. Theft of intellectual property and other
uncollegial behaviors abound, including the dirty little
secret of exploiting student talent. Production and
consumption cycles are linked at ever more frantic metabolic
pace.
To what end? Autologous consumption may result in the
destruction of the weakened host.
On the other hand, therapeutic intervention might be provided
by new strains of political/social or other compelling
critical practices advocated by in-the-world immunologists
like N. Musolino and J. Young.
Some irony that the eighties' real-estate boom-boom was a
boon-boon for architecture school expansion, which in turn
provided academic petri dish agar for arch-lit-criterati
cultures. Like flesh eating bacteria deconstructing as they
chomp-chomp, cultures both contested and fed off of boom host:
faculty salaries, school rags, lecture series, exhibitions,
alumni gifts all flush with good time enzymes. Mea culpa.
At some point, crit culture, god bless, achieved an internal
sociology of critical-mass-in-numbers that allowed it to start
feeding off itself. Media opportunities, newly built and empty
museums, lectures, roster of the usual overexposed
personalities provided a trembling jocelyn edifice for self-
gratification. With jury panels willingly doing onan's
bidding, no need to find external in-the-world partners to
lubricate mind ventures.
Rampant careerism and commodification of theory so in evidence
in crit-cult these days seems tragically inimical to aims of
contesting market values. With 90's loss of easy bucks, with
funding pickings ever slimming, competition is deadly keen to
flog eyecatching gloss and earstroking talk products to zines
and deans. Theft of intellectual property and other
uncollegial behaviors abound, including the dirty little
secret of exploiting student talent. Production and
consumption cycles are linked at ever more frantic metabolic
pace.
To what end? Autologous consumption may result in the
destruction of the weakened host.
On the other hand, therapeutic intervention might be provided
by new strains of political/social or other compelling
critical practices advocated by in-the-world immunologists
like N. Musolino and J. Young.