tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29437172.post1495427382495498527..comments2024-02-19T18:29:16.950+10:00Comments on Making Friends With The Neighbours: Surfing HavanaRebecca Olivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428676558153909572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29437172.post-74768893811115168612013-02-18T20:53:41.607+10:002013-02-18T20:53:41.607+10:00Haha. Clif so totally hearts theory.
I find that ...Haha. Clif so totally hearts theory.<br /><br />I find that there are lots of new lines and connections, but they are quiet and hidden away. As soon as they emerge or are noticed, they get picked up by someone with an agenda, and the creativity is, unsurprisingly, embraced. The thing is, I suppose, it's nice to feel acknowledged and validated, right? <br /><br />As ever, complexities and contradictions. <br />Rebecca Olivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09428676558153909572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29437172.post-62988748523479401602013-02-18T19:32:59.938+10:002013-02-18T19:32:59.938+10:00it's not surprising to me that the 'societ...it's not surprising to me that the 'society of the spectacle' would capture some of the cuban surfer imaginations (surf shop, surf magazines, etc), it captured ours (well, mine). The question for me then is how equipment and semiotics are put to use and are produced, and what creative lines this can lead to new connections and movements and relationships - an opening up, a proliferation (a la Benedict Spinoza ... the surfer's philosopher) - rather than homogenisation and standardisation and the containment of movement or blocking of new relationships :-p<br /><br />I do philosophise about these thigns too much hahaClifhttp://www.kurungabaa.netnoreply@blogger.com