{"id":2300,"date":"2010-07-09T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/07\/09\/pushing-the-envelope-only-results-in-papercuts\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:20:08","slug":"pushing-the-envelope-only-results-in-papercuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/07\/09\/pushing-the-envelope-only-results-in-papercuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the envelope only results in papercuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTwo comments by Jonathan M. from <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/06\/expectation-management\">this thread<\/a> at <cite>Torque Control<\/cite> brutally taken out of context:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n I must admit to not understanding a) why one would write stuff that didn\u2019t consciously push the envelope\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nI think that \u2018pushing the envelope\u2019 is a more useful term than avantgarde simply as a short-hand way of saying \u201cdon\u2019t do what other people are doing\u201d. Which is kind of a mantra for the postmodern age.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI always thought the essence of our postmodern age was the realisation that everything had been done and said already and worse, it is all still available at the click of a button, legally or otherwise on the internets. It&#8217;s pointless trying to go for the shock of the new, because there is nothing so new as to be shocking anymore; it&#8217;s a mug&#8217;s game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNew things are not in themselves more interesting than old ideas done well. Nobody will ever be surprised much by a new Terry Pratchett novel, yet I so much rather have him do several more Discworld books than attempting something novel. There&#8217;s a pleasure in seeing a familiar concept being done well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two comments by Jonathan M. from this thread at Torque Control brutally taken out of context: I must admit to not understanding a) why one would write stuff that didn\u2019t consciously push the envelope [&#8230;] I think that \u2018pushing the envelope\u2019 is a more useful term than avantgarde simply as a short-hand way of saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}