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  • From: "Todd Morman" <tmorman AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Nike to Minor Threat: up yrs
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:51:16 -0500

Well, my sympathies are all in the right places on this one, I assure you.
But can I be just a bit of a gadfly for a moment?

Seems to me that either appropriating other folks iconography for your own
twisted purposes is either ok or it's not ok. And aren't most of us who'll
be vomiting at Nike here the kind of people who think once art's out there,
there's no moral argument against someone appropriating it for their own
twisted purposes? In other words, while I certainly feel that a
culture-jamming david-v-goliath purpose makes an act of appropriation a
better work, it's not clear to me that the purpose itself is what justifies
the act.

todd hope that makes sense as a question at least morman





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