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theory: working notes

Here are some questions that have been bothering me lately:

  • Why has so much technology-based culture gotten "stuck" in the 1970s? (The "best" albums for scratch, and most common samples all come from 1970s funk and disco.)

  • Does the continuous extension of copyright serve to prevent cultural innovation by allowing companies to continually recycle older creations where each new issue is essentially all profit, instead of funding new work?

  • Since 1950, a great deal of both high and popular culture are simply recycling earlier innovations: what is causing this cycle?





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