All politics aside, I’m drawn to the reports yesterday that the iPhone 4S release in China yesterday brought fights and an egg attack. Here’s a quote from the event, “Americans do make good products. Much better than ours.” The quotation tells a tale. Every contemporary commercial event is potentially an artistic event by accident or intention. We’re selling one of our products that still has the idea of America built into its appeal as well as its physical structure. This realization strikes me as an ontological experience if ever there was one. The idea. Its creation, production, and sale. We may think we’re selling a manufactured thing in China. But we actually may be selling the concept of a dream that has viability in the life of a world we don’t fully comprehend. That world may be alternative, similar to the world Linklater suggests in Waking Life.
http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/13/10147277-iphone-4s-china-release-sparks-scuffles-and-eggings
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