Courtesy of Bill Benzon. The neat thing about the concept is, it straddles decorating and causing or affecting. Because is graffiti art or vandalism? As I've been arguing for a while, the aesthetic dimension is the causal dimension.
Here's a follow-up post, Tim, where I compare the making of graffiti to group poetry improv in medieval Japan, argue that graffiti is a manifestation of the kami of the site, and that those sites are mu'en ("no relation", a term in Japanese Buddhism) sites.
Here's a follow-up post, Tim, where I compare the making of graffiti to group poetry improv in medieval Japan, argue that graffiti is a manifestation of the kami of the site, and that those sites are mu'en ("no relation", a term in Japanese Buddhism) sites.
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