Comments on: It’s TIME we look at advertising as a performance art. Or an act. http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JS O'Brien http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-33405 JS O'Brien Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:28:27 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/#comment-33405 As a union-card-carrying-performance-artist-turned-big-business-puke, I either disagree with your definitions (I'm pretty certain I do) or don't fully understand them. You seem to want to relegate the real performance artist, the actor, musician, storyteller, etc. to some cramped corner of ... what ... advertising? So, the passionate advertising copywriter who produced Mr. Whipple is a performance artist, but Brando's portrayal of Stanley Kowalski is merely a "performance act"? Wow. The grandeur of advertising. As a union-card-carrying-performance-artist-turned-big-business-puke, I either disagree with your definitions (I’m pretty certain I do) or don’t fully understand them. You seem to want to relegate the real performance artist, the actor, musician, storyteller, etc. to some cramped corner of … what … advertising? So, the passionate advertising copywriter who produced Mr. Whipple is a performance artist, but Brando’s portrayal of Stanley Kowalski is merely a “performance act”?

Wow. The grandeur of advertising.

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-33165 Dr. Slammy Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:03:52 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/#comment-33165 So TIME enjoys no agency in the process? So TIME enjoys no agency in the process?

]]> By: Jane http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-33139 Jane Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:41:15 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/13/its-time-we-look/#comment-33139 We the people may define our world, but the reality we construct and through which we mediate the media is a relational reality. In other words, a person's relationship to TIME is what constructs reality, not TIME or people in their own abstracted realm. We the people may define our world, but the reality we construct and through which we mediate the media is a relational reality. In other words, a person’s relationship to TIME is what constructs reality, not TIME or people in their own abstracted realm.

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