A PEOPLES SYSTEM OF CELEBRITY. We are constructing an alternative tradition of fame. It is a cultural leadership where usefulness to local work for change is what makes us come back to a certain personalitys story. Call it a horizontal fame, based on peoples talking and listening as they take their own risks. Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, Edward Snowden, Vandana Shiva, Chelsea Manning, the Arctic 30 - these are people who contrast decisively with the commercial celebrity of someone like a Beyonce who accepts $50 million from Pepsi - whose fame is and must be without meaning. Becoming known to many people bears a crucial responsibility now, at this time of the corporatized state and the Earths crisis.
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:56:54 +0000
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