CULTURE REVIEW | Gordon: Boddy elucidates history of media
A gramophone sits on a laboratory table. It spins, becoming a turntable, boom box, cassette player. It’s smashed with a hammer, wielded by a disembodied hand. It is a CD player, hatching a first generation iPod, which slenderizes into a cellphone, blasting techno beats.
Someone flicked on the lights.
“You can see how they represent the process of media change,” said the man at the podium, peering over professorial specks. “Organic and teleological and violent … capitalism’s giddy orgy of destruction.”
The video clip is an LG advertisement from 2006, promoting their...
