iPod – five years of My Space
“Music may ‘know no boundaries,’ but the purpose of the iPod is to protect them. As anyone who has spent some time sitting in a Star-bucks can tell you, the customers who work there use iPods to minimise the possibility for social interaction…
Indeed, it may be the iPod's role in constructing the illusion of a home away from home that is the most monstrous thing of all…
It's a paradoxical wish, but one that captures the peculiar anxieties of the postmodern era in their most acute post-9/11 form…”
Alternet looks at Apple’s epochal meProduct
Indeed, it may be the iPod's role in constructing the illusion of a home away from home that is the most monstrous thing of all…
It's a paradoxical wish, but one that captures the peculiar anxieties of the postmodern era in their most acute post-9/11 form…”
Alternet looks at Apple’s epochal meProduct
posted by Culla at 5:02 PM
Whenever i see someone on the tube with an ipod it strikes me as some public act of rejection and rejection of the public space and it is different from a walkman in a subtle but very distinct way: "you're not getting my attention (and don't even try) because I've got FOUR days worth of MY FAVOURITE music on here. To distract me would be an unforgiveable breach of my security and confirmation of just why I need to take my ipod with me everywhere i go. Even, and especially, the toilet at home"
[ Tonkthunk Downs 09/11/2006 20:53:02]
The space that's mine is clearly as irresistible as, i dunno, telly
[ Sue Tocking 14/11/2006 03:01:40]
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