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> At 4:20 PM +0100 7/19/97, Keller Ann Easterling wrote:
> This dumbness and desire for repetition fascinates me too. When
> we were putting together the publication for documenta we talked a bit about this desire
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:02:23 +0100, Robbin Murphy wrote:
> >Edmund Burke called repetition "artificial infinity". It sets up the
> >expectation of more, like the net. Someone pointed out on another list that
> >this is also what television does and why the so-called technological
> >"have-nots" may be better off without the artificially induced craving that
> >can never be satisfied. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said cigarettes were
> >sublime and left you unsatisfied, what more could you want?
> >
> >Fashion is the same thing over and over again, only different (Versace vs.
> >Armani, this year vs. last year) because humans are all the same, only
> >different. Too much difference and they'd be another species. Which is why
> >the Versace murder is both horrifying and fascinating. Murder is a tear in
> >the fabric that can't be repaired or incorporated like the occasional
> >heroin overdose. There's already rumors that it was really a mafia rubout,
> >which would at least give the murder in a familiar context. It is the
> >suspect, Cunnanan, who has the rhythm going, who is always changing and
> >impossible to pin down. We await breathlessly his next manifestation on the
> >nightly news.
> >