"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

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He's willing to sacrifice historical or cultural exactitude of meaning.

他愿意牺牲意义在历史上和文化上的精确性。

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in which we suddenly find ourselves, without meaning to and without being simply victims of any sort of cultural tyranny, standing in front of something, clasping our hands, tilting our head and feeling somehow or another different from the way we feel when we typically look at things.

我们会突然发现，自己毫无理由地,不受任何外在因素控制地，站在一样东西面前，拼命地鼓掌，歪着头品味，感觉到此时此刻的感受,与平时不同。

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They've tended to view the elaborate and carefully constructed texts of P as part of a system whose meaning derives from the larger cultural matrix or grid in which those materials are embedded.

他们注意观察P中十分详尽和仔细构造的内容,这个内容属于某个系统的一部分,源自一个更大的文化母体或网络,所有的这些材料内容都包含在里面。

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