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Re: [microsound] article on NN




> 
>> I always thought that was the point - sort of anarchic capatalism taken
>> to the extereme with lots of irony. I don't think she is serious - just
>> taking the piss big time. I find it quite amusing to be honest - people
>> get so wound up by it.
>> 
> 
> I thought so too, in the beginning, but it's been years she's doing the same
> thing: it's getting utterly tedious and the initial effect her actions had
> has faded away since long. ppl just don't pay attention to her anymore. the
> time has come for her to reinvent herself, but that is the problem i think:
> she isn't able to and keeps clinging to that one hollowed out concept; she's
> slowly becoming the Keith Richards of the Mac niche of the laptop
> "avantgarde".

bad example? -- some would say Keith Richards is an absolute master
of ironic self-presentation.

.....

there's one way that NN triumphs over her critics:
NN is funny. her critics aren't.

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