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Matter | no. 58: all dressed

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My friend Drew Austin recently wrote about how food might have replaced music as “the common thread that runs through everything interesting in a city like New York.” Music, in this narrative, has gone from being something that used to have a physical presence – records you had to hunt down, or bass lines emanating from particular doorways – to something ubiquitous, decoupled from place, and that is increasingly forced upon us. Food is still a physical presence. You can’t eat over the internet, so food retains the power to make us haul our bodies to an actual place in order to put something in our mouths. This is the role that music played in that lost New York – it was motivation and magnet, the thing attractive enough to draw you out of your apartment and into the streets. In this narrative, music’s power has been destroyed by its everywhereing, the fact that you can now listen to anything you want, anywhere. But food has come to this point from the other side – it’s always been ever

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