“ This is not to suggest that we have reached the end of ‘history,’ but rather to propose the proliferation of histories, the successful negotiation of the present depending in large part on the invention or recovery of lost histories of specific subcultures, whose very self-definition is grounded on the construction of a history that can map the present…the medium is no longer the message when the ‘medium’ fragments into diverse functions, in which case is the message the transmission, or is the message the storage ability, or is the message the retrieval system? Is the message in the excess or the access?
— From Jim Collins’ Architectures of Excess, which prefigured Simon Reynolds’ argument in Retromania by about 16 years. In ‘94 it was all about Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, cyberpunk, and Julie Dash films. (via marathonpacks)
