Browsing through the @spaceintruderdetector blog archive (a highly recommended practice), I came across this clip of a much longer interview with writer Alan Moore/ Curioseando por el archivo del blog @spaceintruderdetector (una práctica muy recomendable) llegué a este clip de una entrevista al escritor Alan Moore mucho más larga.
It has audio and subtitles in English, but I've provided a transcript and translation for this one/Tiene audio y subs en Ingles, pero les he dejado trascripción y traducción de esta.
“History is a heat. It is the heat of accumulated information and accumulated complexity. As our culture progresses, we find that we gather more and more information and that we slowly start to move almost from a fluid to a vaporous state, as we approach the ultimate complexity of a social boiling point. I believe that our culture is turning to steam.”
La historia es un calor. Es el calor de la información y la complejidad acumuladas. A medida que nuestra cultura progresa, descubrimos que recopilamos cada vez más información y que lentamente comenzamos a pasar de un estado casi fluido a uno vaporoso, acercándonos a la complejidad máxima de un punto de ebullición social. Creo que nuestra cultura se está convirtiendo en vapor.
Shall we talk about it a little?/¿Hablamos de ello un poco?
Why gas? It has its metaphor. Civilizations always produce information; it's what allows them to grow and remain stable, seeking to record and index as much of it as they can. We know that there was an institutionalized awareness and intention of this as far back as Mesopotamia thousands of years before Christ, but societies and their means of information and recording are becoming more refined, allowing cultures to have more and more information accessible. Solid culture is both the book and the Sumerian clay tablet, but current telecommunications and the dispensing with physical formats are leading us to a more liquid culture in which everything is more flexible and malleable. Zigmunt Bauman isn't the first to see this as something that influences the nature of culture itself, the thinking, or the ways of being of the population, but he is the one who made the term "liquid culture" famous.
¿Por qué gas? Tiene su metáfora. Las civilizaciones siempre producen información, es lo que les permite crecer y mantenerse estables, procurando registrar e indexar todo lo que puedan de esta. Nos consta que hay conciencia e intención institucionalizada de esto ya en Mesopotamia miles de años antes de Cristo, pero las sociedades y sus medios de información y registro van refinándose permitiendo que las culturas tengan más y más información accesible. Cultura sólida es tanto el libro como la tablilla de arcilla sumeria, pero las telecomunicaciones actuales y el prescindir del formato físico nos conduce a una cultura más líquida en la que todo es más flexible y maleable. Zigmunt Bauman no es el primero que ve esto como algo que influye a la naturaleza de la propia cultura, el pensamiento o las formas de ser de la población, pero es quien hace famoso el término de Cultura líquida.
But it was years ago that Bauman's famous book and this interview with Moore took place. The heat of the vivacity of a culture heavily fueled by information would turn it from liquid to gaseous, and we would now be in a culture approaching a gaseous state, even faster at continually generating new information and changes: styles, music, news, opinions…, and freer because it is decentralized and replicated enough to be controlled by means like censorship. It travels through the air we breathe, reaching practically everyone… But all of this is NOT good news; such accelerated culture and subcultures would be as accessible as they are unpredictable, diffuse, and fleeting. An artistic movement could last so little that you would discover its existence when it had already been dead for some time (and that's if you even found out), or a hoax spread in a Japanese public restroom could shake your continent. Are we prepared as a society for the future, no, for the current present?
Pero hace años del famoso libro de Bauman y de esta entrevista de Moore. El calor de lo vivaz de una cultura muy alimentada de información haría que de liquido pasara a estado gaseoso, y ahora estaríamos en una cultura acercándose al estado gaseoso, aún más rápida en generar continuamente nueva información y cambios: estilos, música, noticias, opiniones…, y más libre por descentralizada y replicada como para ser controlada con medios como la censura. Viaja por el aire que respiramos llegando todo prácticamente a todos… Pero todo NO son buenas noticias, la cultura y subculturas tan aceleradas serían tan accesibles como impredecibles, difusas y fugaces. Un movimiento artístico podría durar tan poco que descubrieras su existencia cuando lleva ya tiempo muerto (y eso si te enteras) o un bulo lanzado en unos servicios públicos de Japón podría hacer temblar tu continente ¿Estamos preparados como sociedad para el futuro no, para el presente actual?
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