Comments on: CCR760 – Datacloud – My Indictment: Dug the Book, What About that Broader Context? http://justinlewis.me/me/2010/02/21/ccr760-datacloud-my-indictment-dug-the-book-what-about-that-broader-context/ Wed, 09 May 2012 17:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luce http://justinlewis.me/me/2010/02/21/ccr760-datacloud-my-indictment-dug-the-book-what-about-that-broader-context/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Luce Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:42:20 +0000 http://justinlewis.me/me/?p=249#comment-208 I agree that this work could have gotten more mileage had it itself juxtaposed with some different sources. I was thrown by a lack of discussion about how turntabilism, digging, mixing, scratching and even studio work, have been the love-labor of artists who do not comprise the group of symbolic-analytic workers that Johnson-Eilola describe. This adds a new layer to his explanation that "these skills--digging, mixing and programming--represent an emerging space for symbolic-analytic work, one richer than most of us experience on a daily basis" (114). The type of labor we choose to highlight seems to be the real divide between the experience of artists and the "us" that is deprived of this daily experience. I can't help but think back to Social Histories at this moment... I agree that this work could have gotten more mileage had it itself juxtaposed with some different sources. I was thrown by a lack of discussion about how turntabilism, digging, mixing, scratching and even studio work, have been the love-labor of artists who do not comprise the group of symbolic-analytic workers that Johnson-Eilola describe. This adds a new layer to his explanation that “these skills–digging, mixing and programming–represent an emerging space for symbolic-analytic work, one richer than most of us experience on a daily basis” (114). The type of labor we choose to highlight seems to be the real divide between the experience of artists and the “us” that is deprived of this daily experience.

I can’t help but think back to Social Histories at this moment…

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