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Wow - pure intensity from BB and Logan. To bring up an almost cliched and somewhat tired argument though - surely US hip-hop has its own internal break between a structure as big industry versus an outward projection of ghetto authenticity? For instance, Jay-Z's hardly living street; but that...

Auditory Space I think that there should be a strong differentiation kept between academic/classic training, and the forms of appreciation that Simon is referring to. That is, it's not necessarily about recognizing the chords, notes or tunings of a particular arrangement, but about...

I guess, like most people, when I read 'simulation', I think of Baudrillard - whose writing in many ways presents a deeply cynical and pessimistic take on popular media. Not a particularly helpful one either, for the most part. But in terms of a more nuanced reading, I'm even thinking of...

Still seems to be an element of remorse in your argument, a suggestion that consumers should somehow become the producers of technology - which is a bit different from Baudrillard's orientation on simulation (isn't his response from the 'Requiem for the Media' essay?), especially the humanist...

While Kittler's 'There is no software' position is valid, I think his argument are most effective as a provocation - a bit extreme to imagine, for instance, that the future for cultural studies lies in engineering and code (i.e. that critics should know arithmetic, the integral function, the...