Grant McCracken over on his TBSA anthropology/culture blog asks why popular culture has got so complicated. If our hectic of time poverty, attention deficiciency, and information overload, Grant wonders why there is a trend towards shows like 24 and Lost require a amount of knowlege and analysis to follow. A fascinating point. Check Grant’s post via the link below and the hearty disucssion that follows.
Puzzle time: why is contemporary culture becoming more complicated?
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Grant takes a lot of liberties with what he says and then adds something like… “I’m an anthropologist!” in a weak appeal to higher authority. I’ve even seen him delete a solid comment that challenged him. Maybe he is so right he doesn’t need to consider anyone who doesn’t agree with him. I think Grant’s a hack postmodernist that makes some good observations and then backs them up with fluff he labels science so he can guess at what those observations mean. It sounds pretty good if you aren’t another anthropologist.
I’ve also seen him crack on trend spotters. What’s the matter Grant? Jealous maybe??
January 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pm