Re: Saving the advertising industry in a fractured media-verse? Biz 2.0

[Tom Walker <timework@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote,


> This "high and higher efforts" that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
> must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
> Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940.

Yes, also constructivism and dada. As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Modernity; the
time of hell. The punishments of hell are always the newest thing going in
this domain. What is at issue is not that "the same thing happens over and
over" (much less is it a question here of eternal return), but rather that
the face of the world, the colossal head, precisely in what is newest never
alters --  that this "newest" remains, in every respect, the same...."