Connoisseurship is tied, inexplicably, to masculinity. A man’s collection provides for him a haven; a retreat, a Fortress of Solitude.
Record collecting specifically is a collection of sexuality, and a private listening room is a reasonable and necessary space for a collector to have; it is his Tower of Power.
Collections provide an identity, and contextualize men in a larger web of consumption making them “experts” on certain subjects. Collections are the evidence or artifacts of a cultivation of knowledge, and this knowledge is signaled in the way the males perform, or present their collections.
It could be said that collections also may act as escape from reality, as a symbol for immaturity, or as substitutes for intimacy.
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Queries:
1. In this digital age where records are essentially outdated, what do you think the substitute 'male' collection is?
2. Does the connoisseur still exist? Do you think that in a time where virtually anything can be looked up on the internet, individuals may know many things, but the drive to go deep on one particular subject is dying out?
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