"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"It is at least empirically arguable that our daily life, our psychic experience, our cultural languages, are today dominated by categories of space rather than by categories of time, as in the preceding period of high modernism proper" (Jameson 64); after all, we speak of the Net as cyberspace, too. Acquiring place of one's own is therefore an important development -- de Certeau notes three major benefits of establishing a place 'proper': it is "a triumph of place over time" (emphasis removed), allowing "a certain independence with respect to the variability of circumstances"; it is "a mastery of places through sight", enabling institutions "to predict, to run ahead of time by reading a space"; and it points out the existence of "a specific type of knowledge, one sustained and determined by the power to provide oneself with one's own place" (36). It is easy to detect these aspects in the Progressive Rock community's appropriation of cyberspatial places: it has detached itself from the cyclical succession of musical styles in the mainstream media, thus triumphing over time; it has consolidated, and demarcated its boundaries, thus mastering the places in its vicinity and becoming able to plan its development through the appropriation of outside influences; it has, finally, fixed its central knowledge and beliefs in FAQs and Web sites, thus investing this knowledge (and, in turn, itself) with the greater power of established structures of ideology.	Bit 7

"It is at least empirically arguable that our daily life, our psychic experience, our cultural languages, are today dominated by categories of space rather than by categories of time, as in the preceding period of high modernism proper" (Jameson 64); after all, we speak of the Net as cyberspace, too. Acquiring place of one's own is therefore an important development -- de Certeau notes three major benefits of establishing a place 'proper': it is "a triumph of place over time" (emphasis removed), allowing "a certain independence with respect to the variability of circumstances"; it is "a mastery of places through sight", enabling institutions "to predict, to run ahead of time by reading a space"; and it points out the existence of "a specific type of knowledge, one sustained and determined by the power to provide oneself with one's own place" (36). It is easy to detect these aspects in the Progressive Rock community's appropriation of cyberspatial places: it has detached itself from the cyclical succession of musical styles in the mainstream media, thus triumphing over time; it has consolidated, and demarcated its boundaries, thus mastering the places in its vicinity and becoming able to plan its development through the appropriation of outside influences; it has, finally, fixed its central knowledge and beliefs in FAQs and Web sites, thus investing this knowledge (and, in turn, itself) with the greater power of established structures of ideology.

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