Susan Sontag on Rocksim

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From "Notes On Camp":
"The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak."

― Huk-L, Sunday, 9 January 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Rocksim sounds like a great game. What console is it on?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 9 January 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Vic Commodore 64

I'm waiting for the further clause to be added in anti-rockism which essentially states or implies high and low pleasures in combination are a means to an end and not the end in and of itself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Well put, my articulate friend. And I enjoyed another recent post of yours on another thread expressing some similar sentiment. But I fear you might wait a long time for the addendum-that's a slow train coming.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 9 January 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I doubt Sontag would have regarded rock music as offering much in the way of "high and serious" pleasure.

― frankiemachine, Sunday, 9 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

But I fear you might wait a long time for the addendum-that's a slow train coming.

Perhaps. But let's see what a new thread can prompt.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

You may be right. After all, it's a New Year. And, since the whole debate has been outed to the well-groomed multitude of upperbrow cappuccino-drinkin' Lincoln Center-attendin' New York TImes readers, a paradigm shapeshift may not be far behind.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 9 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Those paradigms, they keep on a-shiftin'. They're a shifty bunch.

― thee music mole, Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Rockism is sort of etc. And I'd like to throw a vague hand shape to accentuate the above point.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, the title of the thread refers to 'rocksim' rather than 'rockism'. So we need to bring in Baudrillard here, rather than Kuhn.

― thee music mole, Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

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