REAL VIRTUALITY – Alexander Matzkeit über Film und Medien
"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard
" To Truly Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine " - Brian Dillon in the New York Times writing about the way that reading old magazines (his examples are a 1984 issue of The Face and a 1965 issue of Vogue ) immerses you in history in a way that dissolves the inherited and calcified ideas of what a decade or epoch was actually like. It's a battle between "edits" - the original selective version of the then-present as captured in that issue of the magazine, versus the edited-down version of the era
" What surprises me now in the pages of The Face : There are just the tiniest hints of the British miners’ strike and the swelling unemployment that are convulsing the country politically. And not a single mention yet of AIDS; in a Wrangler ad, a model’s speech bubble announces, oblivious: “I’m Positive.” In these magazine pages, it both is and is not the 1984 of my memory ."
REAL VIRTUALITY – Alexander Matzkeit über Film und Medien