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…the process of re-presenting oneself to the outside and unto oneself is conducted through an appeal firstly to the outside—but in direct relation to the self. This relationship is dictated by one’s own outlook on what is ‘cool’, what sounds ‘cool’, and what looks ‘cool’. Therefore, this relationship is always conscious of the spaces around or outside the self—as it is there where one draws his or her own inspiration or taste of ‘cool’ in relation to oneself—you might remember that I mentioned in relation to Spivak’s ideas earlier that the world as she wrongly termed as a semiotic-field is continuously tapped during one’s own process of self-re-presentation, well, I think this source (whatever you might call it) no longer belongs in the background or is no longer implicit—rather, it becomes the very surface of that with which the self interacts —it is the very combination of sounds in music and the structured elements of the images the self perceives and therefore experience in his or her everyday life. Such that the need to know these elements…..

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