![]() ![]() It’s more of a living meditation than manifesto, really. Prince Rama: It’s still writing itself… everyday I write a little more, with each limb, each step, each breath. We’d discuss levitating cities, time traveling through holograms, harnessing utopic space, and then I’d add a layer of gesso and bake him molasses cookies.į Newsmagazine: How long did it take you to write “ The Now Age“? What inspired you to produce this manifesto? ![]() To say it was an apprenticeship hardly does it justice… for me it was like a spiritual discipleship. It was this totally random work study position that I applied for on a whim, then as soon as we met in person we connected instantly as mutual freaks. Prince Rama: I met him in Boston while attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts out there. Channeling is synonymous with participating in the Eternal Now.į Newsmagazine: How did you meet the artist Paul Lafolley? What comprised your apprenticeship with him? One is linked to the aesthetics of time, one is linked to the aesthetics of no-time. Channeling is about embodying a timeless present. Imitating is all about a recapitulation of the past. Prince Rama: Channeling is very different from imitation. Prince Rama: Anytime you hear a song that sounds eerily like something else, that is ghost-modern.į Newsmagazine: Do you differentiate channeling inspirational works of the past and become distracted by inauthentic copying? How? So yes, I am totally flirting with Derrida, but in the end I never go home with him.į Newsmagazine: Are there other musics besides your own that you consider “Ghost Modern”? When people talk about “tumblr fashion,” they are totally talking about an instance when people “in the real-world” are haunted by the look of this phantom virtual world. The internet has a lot to do with the development of this phase because it has created an artificial sort of Digi-Eternal-Now merging the physical world with the metaphysical ghosts of bygone eras and futures not yet manifest that we as residents of the flesh dip in and out of like people possessed by ghosts. Prince Rama: I use the term Ghost-Modernism to describe the aesthetic phase following post-modernism, in which time ceases to be linear and past, present and future become more holographically embedded in the present. F Newsmagazine: Can you explain what you mean by the term Ghost Modern? Does it have any connection to Derrida’s idea of Hauntology? ![]()
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