{"id":976,"date":"2012-10-04T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:51:21","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e11-authenticity-v-utopia-with-jonathon-keats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E11: Authenticity v. Utopia with Jonathon Keats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-977\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"keats\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/keats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down somewhere in between San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill with conceptual artist, experimental philosopher, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/jonathonkeats\/\">writer<\/a> Jonathon Keats, author of the upcoming book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Forged-Why-Fakes-are-Great\/dp\/0199928355\">Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age<\/a><\/em>. They discuss his own role as, above all, a fake; his attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernisminc.com\/exhibitions\/Jonathon_KEATS--THE_EPIGENETIC_CLONING_AGENCY\/\">epigenetically clone<\/a> such celebrities as Lady Gaga, Michael Phelps, and Barack Obama; <em>Forged<\/em>, forgery, pursuit of simulacra, and Wim Wenders&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZA3a_XLCCs\">Notebook on Cities and Clothes<\/a><\/em>; content&#8217;s ongoing release from form, and how it sends out the concept of forgery even as it brings it back in; the enthusiastically forged paintings of Jean-Baptiste-Camille\u00a0Corot, and\u00a0Thomas Kinkade&#8217;s massively replicated, &#8220;master highlighted&#8221; images; authenticity as it relates to spaghetti and meatballs; San Francisco&#8217;s intriguing tension between the claims of its own authenticity and its vision of itself as an experimental utopia \u2014 or, in his words, its simultaneous tendencies toward the &#8220;incredibly smug&#8221; and &#8220;very insecure&#8221;; why Europeans love San Francisco, and whether that has anything to do with the city&#8217;s ultimate derivation from their own; his thought experiments&#8217; usefulness as &#8220;curiosity amplifiers,&#8221; generating larger questions than the ones they came from; the difference between doing experimental philosophy in San Francisco and in other countries, like Italy; and the exhilarating American freedom that also numbs.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e11-authenticity-v-utopia-with-jonathon-keats\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e11-authenticity-v-utopia-with-jonathon-keats\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Jen Dessinger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down somewhere in between San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill with conceptual artist, experimental philosopher, and writer Jonathon Keats, author of the upcoming book Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age. They discuss his own role as, above all, a fake; his attempt to epigenetically clone such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}