Blog post #7

According to the “Power” episode, Damon Krukowski argues that the marginal-the rejected-the repressed might be a key to alternate approaches to art-to society-to power itself. I support his view. As he mentions in the audio, such as bookstores, google search and Apple Music and so on, these things all have a huge amount of data and a lot of things will be marginalized, because nobody can read all the books, search all information what he doesn’t know or listen all the music in the world. Apple Music want to work with the entire universe of available music and it’s employees exposed the music, but no one is listening to everything. It’s impossible and not a human task on human scale. These information are done by computers using algorithms. What’s more, with the development of technology, music is classified by round acoustic similarity in electronic products. We are always recommended some music that right for us based on our context, mood, and where we are, etc. Thus, the music that we don’t hear is like being marginalized. The music we hear that suits us is powerful to us. However, is it there no power in marginalized music? There is no doubt that they are equally powerful, they are not suitable for us, but to others they are not marginalized. All in all, there are so many things in the world that we don’t observe, whether it’s music or something else, that they are called the marginal ,the rejected and the repressed, but they are also a key approach to be power for another people.