A two part discussion between Henry Jenkins and the Wu Ming Foundation. Enough said... The conversation is compelling and stimulating - and that is hardly surprising.
Here's one of my favorite passages (emphasis added):
"In short, I started to expose my brain and body to all kinds of popular culture at a time when the Internet didn't exist. I've always been in love with pop culture. All the other members of Wu Ming have similar backgrounds: sci-fi, comics, martial arts, rock'n'roll - two of them played in punk rock bands, one of which was fairly famous in the Italian underground. I think that if you don't know pop culture, you don't know your culture, thereby you don't know the world around you. If you don't know shit about pop culture, how can you be on the cutting edge of anything? If you don't soil your hands with pop culture, if you snub and sneer at today's participatory culture, you can't be "avantgarde", no matter how hard you try." (Wu Ming 1)
Part one. Part Two.
Lost and ARGs might be innovative but Wu Ming was (and still is) truly revolutionary. Aesthetically, pragmatically, and politically.
Update: Wu Ming has added some comments to the post. To read them click on... "comments"
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