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art--you assume that television occupies the same kind of relation to how people construct their views of the world in urban and suburban/rural spaces--i do not think that is the case--television does not float above other patterns of sociability--it is used in terms set by those patterns.
i think you have basically different patterns in these spaces.
nor do i find that people in the city tend to see their views doubled in those of tv--no-one i know watches tv for information about the world--they check in with it to see what the american ideological apparatus is making of them--but they do not rely on it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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