Gender-Fluid Milgram Experiments
Aug. 15th, 2010 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceThe NYT has become like this two-pound toad I pick up in the morning and cut up, looking for the seed pearl buried in the back of its left eye or in the right wall of the toad heinie. It's totally decathexis fer sher and we'll see if it goes away, or if I have permanently graduated to a more highly-evolved plane.
Until then, it is this graf alone, today, that set my hair on end:
What they do instead is heighten, reflect and confirm the daily reality of an age ruled by interactive media, in which information is fragmented, attention spans are brief, and individual identity is fluid. More than any other productions I have seen here, these drew theatergoers mostly in their 20s and 30s. This makes sense, because the proper frame of reference for experiencing “Bum Bum” and “Malfi” isn’t that of other theater works. What comes to mind instead are YouTube, video games, Web surfing and watching television with a heavy thumb on the channel changer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/theater/15notebook.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=malfi&st=cse
So, are we aware of any work which tests the ability of the avant-garde, futurist, gender/value-fluid to resist the thrills of fascism and homicide? Any Milgram studies of the Afro pomo homos? I wonder if they, my brothers and sisters, are more or less willing to electrocute their fellow beings than I am.
Until then, it is this graf alone, today, that set my hair on end:
What they do instead is heighten, reflect and confirm the daily reality of an age ruled by interactive media, in which information is fragmented, attention spans are brief, and individual identity is fluid. More than any other productions I have seen here, these drew theatergoers mostly in their 20s and 30s. This makes sense, because the proper frame of reference for experiencing “Bum Bum” and “Malfi” isn’t that of other theater works. What comes to mind instead are YouTube, video games, Web surfing and watching television with a heavy thumb on the channel changer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/theater/15notebook.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=malfi&st=cse
So, are we aware of any work which tests the ability of the avant-garde, futurist, gender/value-fluid to resist the thrills of fascism and homicide? Any Milgram studies of the Afro pomo homos? I wonder if they, my brothers and sisters, are more or less willing to electrocute their fellow beings than I am.
