The gothic artifact evokes worlds that can no longer exist—worlds that wither in the digital light. Its mythological quality is part and parcel of its weight—whether it is the mythology of a chivalrous medieval world or the mythologies of the bygone heyday of the industrial worker (in the United States). It is not merely a false consciousness embodied in these myths and projections of meaning—it is genuine loss for universes and people lost to ruthless novelty. It is an imagining of what was and what could have been, in a time and place when what one did might still have mattered. It is also, however, a frightening artifact—reminding us of past tyrannies and the demise of contemporary worlds. It is the monster in the childs closet--seductive and horrible all at once.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:02:59 +0000
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