*I love METROPOLIS dearly, and Karrie Jacobs is one of
my favorite writers in the realm of design and architecture,
but look how she's recruiting Andy Warhol, of all people,
as a proto-blogger. Huh.
This stuff Karrie says about the nature of time
and historicity is absolutely up my alley. This is some
top-notch stuff here, boyo.
'Lately I've been thinking about time–specifically the way that the twentieth century has begun to recede and the twenty-first has started to assert itself. This new century feels less like one of those seamless science-fiction places where everything is smooth and technologically advanced and more like a cut-and-paste job, with the new tightly tethered to the old. The contents of the Warhol Time Capsule serve as a trail of bread crumbs that I can follow from a still resonant period 30-plus years ago deep into the strange hybrid moment that is the present.
(...)
'Warhol trailblazed a twenty-first-century way of seeing, using primitive twentieth-century tools: the lithograph, the photo booth, the Polaroid camera, the movie camera, the cardboard box. The Time Capsules, jammed full of the things that inspired Warhol, that he was obsessed with, can be read as predigital blogs. And the way he lived–immersed in a stew of public and private, art and life–is how more and more people routinely live today. Imagine if Warhol had had a camera-phone or a cable modem or his own Web site. '
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1585
*Mind you, this is Karrie Jacobs the stellar public intellectual,
not Karrie Jacobs the vinyl-clad porn model whose imagery has
spread like primeval ooze all over the dang internets.
