Self-Storage: Reading John Cage in Reykjavik

https://lithub.com/self-storage-reading-john-cage-in-reykjavik/

Hello folks,

I=E2=80=99m not really one for this kind of writing,
but it does have some interesting observations about Cage within.=20
Basically, the author is recounting her trip to Iceland and her reading =
of=20
Cage=E2=80=99s republished "Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will =
Only Make Matters Worse)=E2=80=9D during her trip.

=E2=80=9C...=E2=80=9CWe need an utterly wireless technology,=E2=80=9D he =
wrote almost 30 years before the Internet. =E2=80=9CAdd video screen to =
telephone. Give each subscriber a thousand sheets of recordable erasable =
material so anytime, anywhere, anyone would have access to a thousand =
sheets of something (drawings, books, music, whatever).=E2=80=9D Before =
the advent of portable hard drives he was predicting our memory banks, =
Facetime and Skype, the thousands of digital artifacts clogging our =
iClouds and iPhones. Memories, deconstructed into data, that we had =
access to with the swipe of an index finger on a black screen=E2=80=A6=E2=80=
=9D

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season.
It=E2=80=99s been, let=E2=80=99s say, a memorable 2019 - both on a =
personal basis and internationally.

R


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=E2=80=8CJohn Cage:=E2=80=8C ASLSP (For Piano) (1985): III
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=E2=80=8Cfrom:
=E2=80=8CMusique Pour Piano (Volume 4)=E2=80=8C

=E2=80=8CLast.FM:
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Mixcloud:
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