tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post8045152530462864198..comments2024-01-24T06:50:01.683-06:00Comments on Samizdat Blog: "Imagine What It Does to Americans!": Kenneth Goldsmith and AdvertisingArchambeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052308.post-79290938679792833902014-09-14T20:54:30.587-05:002014-09-14T20:54:30.587-05:00This is a most revealing and articulate profile on...This is a most revealing and articulate profile on Kenny G's (an artist I have admired as he has progressed) adopted position concerning his own profile in the mass media. I am in agreement with much of the observations of the author (assuming there is such a thing as "author"). KG is truly extraordinarily acute in his understanding of the philosophical/esthetic niche we currently inhabit with regard to critical theory and its use as an underpinning for the recognized products of contemporary (albeit employ "excuse" ephemeral for those who play that game). But this piece really nails down the misuse of ambiguity that artists can, with some clever "postmodern" citations use to have it BOTH ways. In the end this is nothing more than a linguistic dodge to pave the way to a personal lucrative success while feigning to take a position that can be defended against actually "taking a position." In the end, you are either an artist who has an integrity which is definitive - at least roughly - or you are with those who game the system with smoke-and-mirrors evasion - like the politicians who serve Themselves ( and their knowing, paying supporters) rather than their over-whelmed, deluded "fan base" who are too easily fooled by the latest in media swell, Orwellian "double-speak". For the record, I have confidence that Kenny G. is an extraordinary artist who has been temporarily blinded by the attention payed. I wish him the kind of revelation that directs his attention to the MASS of people who need illumination rather than those small percentage who comprise the ILLUMINATI.<br /><br />Sincerely, Anon. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com