[microsound] futurism and apocalypse

[tasty radish <tastyradish@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Futurism on the one hand and religious apocalypticism
 on the other are also defining a current
aesthetic-political spectrum that merges in the mix of
the digital."

This is interesting. Could you eleborate what you
mean, with perhaps examples?  I wonder if this
formulation may be conflating a *root* of current
sensibilities (particularly in digital music of late),
futurism, with a current (last 20 or so years) of
Apocalyptic imagination and imagery.  Most current
music and digital art doesn't really share futurist
ideas and concerns though it may have a significant
formal set of practices that can be traced back. It
seems like current aesthetic sensibilities (in music
and otherwise) overwhelmingly harbor a strong degree
of doubt/reticence in the Great Future, rather then a
kind of manic enthusiasm for it (as something
desirable and life-giving).  
- andrew


		
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