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What's going on? Click Opera is in retro-minimalist mode while Momus writes a book.
When does normal service resume? September 1st.
What's happening in the meantime? This page will be changing every day, with news and announcements and links to old content from the last three years of Click Opera.
What's today's old content?
June 17th 2004: Momus had been living in Berlin with fashion graduate Aya for nine months when she got offered a job as personal assistant to Swedish designer Ann-Sophie Back and decided to go back to London. So this entry just says "Bye bye Aya!" Aya now lives in Tokyo and works at another fashion job, equally glamorous. She took Hisae and M to traditional Mejiro cafe Kasoyo two weeks ago.
June 17th 2005: "As advanced societies get more consumer-oriented and more culture-oriented, and as we focus more on quality of life rather than mere affluence, we'll inevitably find ourselves looking at use value rather than exchange value. But we'll also see use value as something which can be translated back into money, which can be exchanged."
June 17th 2006: After having disapproved of the pelvic thrusting image of a footballer, Momus lists eight reasons why he approves of a naked image of a man plastered around Berlin to advertise a daily paper. Here's one: "The Zeit image avoids what I call "Dionysus in the throne of Apollo" Syndrome; the encouragement of laddish, selfish, druggy, irresponsible behavior in consumers. I reject this because those authorities who encourage us to be Dionysian -- to lose control, but in a controlled way, strapped into planes or herded into football stadiums -- are not Dionysian themselves: they simply want to keep the control element, the rationality which underlies power, to themselves rather than see it spread through the population. Authorities who encourage us to be irresponsible (within limits, and in conformist ways) are contradicting the basic Existentialist message that we should each be responsible for our own actions, and control our own lives."
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Where is Momus today? In Berlin, writing the chapter which somehow marries Chaucer and Beckett. Rather than Ohio Impromptu, though, it's a late television piece called Quad he's referencing, colliding it with The Miller's Tale.
Next Momus appearance: With Laila France and Kumi Okamoto at the Fleche D'Or in Paris on June 29th.
Momus photos: Flickr.
When does normal service resume? September 1st.
What's happening in the meantime? This page will be changing every day, with news and announcements and links to old content from the last three years of Click Opera.
What's today's old content?
June 17th 2004: Momus had been living in Berlin with fashion graduate Aya for nine months when she got offered a job as personal assistant to Swedish designer Ann-Sophie Back and decided to go back to London. So this entry just says "Bye bye Aya!" Aya now lives in Tokyo and works at another fashion job, equally glamorous. She took Hisae and M to traditional Mejiro cafe Kasoyo two weeks ago.
June 17th 2005: "As advanced societies get more consumer-oriented and more culture-oriented, and as we focus more on quality of life rather than mere affluence, we'll inevitably find ourselves looking at use value rather than exchange value. But we'll also see use value as something which can be translated back into money, which can be exchanged."
June 17th 2006: After having disapproved of the pelvic thrusting image of a footballer, Momus lists eight reasons why he approves of a naked image of a man plastered around Berlin to advertise a daily paper. Here's one: "The Zeit image avoids what I call "Dionysus in the throne of Apollo" Syndrome; the encouragement of laddish, selfish, druggy, irresponsible behavior in consumers. I reject this because those authorities who encourage us to be Dionysian -- to lose control, but in a controlled way, strapped into planes or herded into football stadiums -- are not Dionysian themselves: they simply want to keep the control element, the rationality which underlies power, to themselves rather than see it spread through the population. Authorities who encourage us to be irresponsible (within limits, and in conformist ways) are contradicting the basic Existentialist message that we should each be responsible for our own actions, and control our own lives."
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Where is Momus today? In Berlin, writing the chapter which somehow marries Chaucer and Beckett. Rather than Ohio Impromptu, though, it's a late television piece called Quad he's referencing, colliding it with The Miller's Tale.
Next Momus appearance: With Laila France and Kumi Okamoto at the Fleche D'Or in Paris on June 29th.
Momus photos: Flickr.