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I've only read Ravenstein - and I really enjoyed it - a good take on teh Straussian types. His writing is really superlative. I just picked up The Victim at the local school fete (for 50 cents). I haven't looked at it yet. Anyone read it?

[Sounding a bit like a wanker] Maybe we need to employ a distinction between the formal chararcteristics of music and aesthetic judgement. There might be kinds of music which have a set of formal properties which just work well, which means music in that form is more likely to come together...

Whoa there, steady on. That's not what I meant at all! :o

Genre's can be a terrible refuge for an unthinking engagement with music or can be a useful tool <i>a la</i> Melchior's suggestion, which goes to your point about judgement being relative. Not only is the assessment of what is crap (gabba) or not relative, but so is what fits into what genre, or...

I'm not really across my Derrida, so can't say much, other than I thought that German critical theory actually does a reasonable job in this regard (that is in addressing psychology and politics - I'm thinking in particular of Axel Honneth, the current director of the Frankfurt School) I'm...

I took a while to really get into this album, but it grew on me. The whole kookie comic book chopped up short track style took a while to take hold, but once it did I really enjoyed Madvillian. But I don't think it is an album I'll keep coming back to. Doom's got a great flow but is better...