Repeating Repeating Ourselves

Maud Newton references Richard Brody on the centrality of the director in Cahiers Du Cinema versus the centrality of the author in the Paris Review interviews of the same period.

Brody observes that “portable” recording devices (which weighed about nine pounds then) made these conversations possible, and wonders about the effect of technology on our “expectations for information and aesthetics” generally.

The expectations-for-information-and-aesthetics bit caught my attention. As we have said here before on Datachondria new forms of technology are linked to new forms of criticism. The supercut is only one such example. Now if only we could learn how to use these tools we would be laughing.

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