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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
reference of "is"
What is "an attempt to write..."? Skateboarding or the understanding of it? The grammar of the sentence says that it is referring to "the contemplation of the form" while the example mentioned in the rest of the text says something else.
This chapter argues that ‘skateboarders implicitly realise the importance of the streets as a place to act’. Thus, a contemplation of the form as art does not by any means limit itself to the formal aesthetics of movement but is ‘an attempt to write anew [. . .] to insert meaning where precisely there was none’. Borden’s prime example of this is the skateboarder’s re-functioning of the handrail, ollie-ing up, then ‘sliding down its length sideways [which] targets something to do with safety, with everyday security, and turns it into an object of risk’.
This chapter argues that ‘skateboarders implicitly realise the importance of the streets as a place to act’. Thus, a contemplation of the form as art does not by any means limit itself to the formal aesthetics of movement but is ‘an attempt to write anew [. . .] to insert meaning where precisely there was none’. Borden’s prime example of this is the skateboarder’s re-functioning of the handrail, ollie-ing up, then ‘sliding down its length sideways [which] targets something to do with safety, with everyday security, and turns it into an object of risk’.
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This is awful, pretentious garbage, but there is almost a thought here. Skateboarding, when it is considered as art , has two elements. First is the aesthetics of movement (how graceful or powerful or something your skating is).
- This is awful, pretentious garbage, but there is almost a thought here.
- Skateboarding, when it is considered as art , has two elements.
- First is the aesthetics of movement (how graceful or powerful or something your skating is).
- Second is the creation of new meaning (the "attempt to write anew").
- That is, skateboarding uses the handrail as part of its pathway (rather than as a safety device for walkers).
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This is awful, pretentious garbage, but there is almost a thought here.
Skateboarding, when it is considered as art, has two elements.
First is the aesthetics of movement (how graceful or powerful or something your skating is).
Second is the creation of new meaning (the "attempt to write anew"). That is, skateboarding uses the handrail as part of its pathway (rat
Skateboarding, when it is considered as art, has two elements.
First is the aesthetics of movement (how graceful or powerful or something your skating is).
Second is the creation of new meaning (the "attempt to write anew"). That is, skateboarding uses the handrail as part of its pathway (rat
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