“The Body Acoustic”

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It cannot be overstated that the youth raised on video games were also raised on fear and the specter of terror from all directions. Their political identity may still be as curious as the juxtapositions in their People’s Libraries—Plato’s Republic beside Judy Blume, a box or two away from Marx and Augustine—or as hard to decipher as the grab bag of symbols and references in V for Vendetta. Theirs is a kind of twenty-first-century surreality, so let us recall an aphorism by surrealism’s great poet, Paul Éluard: “There cannot be total revolution but only permanent revolution. Like love, it is the fundamental joy of life.” Talk of revolution is premature, but a joyless generation has finally tasted public happiness.

Axé.

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