Are you talking about the dean blunt quote? Are you saying it's missing something about what is new? What else could it have? I mean, he refuses to talk about what he does on the terms that people want him to talk about it, and i think this 'speech act' does explain that quite well? Elsewhere he's talked about the book of revelation and talking too much killing things. Like, the act of discussion can literally destroy.
I get that's he's speaking about the emergence of innovation in a specific way, in a racialised context, but I think the wider point does still stand ie we literally don't know what the new is and even if you call it something, that is completely meaningless.
Here's the transcription. I think you get something more from reading it, or something different.
Ripped from Scratcha's Rinse FM show 2nd July 2014.
Dean Blunt guesting:
DB: Can I, can I stop for a second?
Scratcha: Yeah man, do your thing.
DB: Can I tell you...
S: This is Dean Blunt FM
DB: Can I tell you about, erm, what Black Metal is
about? Black Metal is about...
S: Do we need to make this acapella?
DB: Nah nah nah. Black Metal basically is er, it's like, it's like, OK, you know, it's like, imagine like an essay and the heading or the thesis kind of title is, er, it's like appropriate yeezus, appropriation, reappropriation and the empowerment of the post-black male... and it's the idea of how, er, in America, the black man uses, erm, existing white images and claims em as his, as a form of empowerment, so Black Cobain, I'm black this, I'm black that, which is not actually really progressive.
So it's this American idea of racial progression, it's completely backward cos er, you're just appropriating something and kind of calling it your own, that's something that's already died and passed...
S: Gimme an exact example...
DB: I think anything like that, anything, anyone that, I think that whole movement or that idea of this like progressive, this new black, but really, you are just taking something that's been and gone, it's been discarded, and claimed it back and saying "yeah I'm the Black Cobain, yeah we're reappropriating..." you're actually, you're picking something old up.
The real progression is something that is undefined and is new and that's what Black Metal is.
S: Oh OK, so would you say you're pushing Black Metal, is that your thing?
DB: Er, Black Metal I guess doesn't really mean anything whatsoever, I guess, if you know what I mean...
S: I actually don't!
DB: Nor do I!