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Resource-wise you mean? Undoubtedly. Actually Capitalism is a massively precarious construct when you look at it. If a few parameters move this way or that, the whole thing is ENTIRELY fucked, and this has become ever more so as throughout the last century it complexified on the basis that what...

But the pleasure principle in either its out-of-control mode or within the limits of what you're terming the reality principle undoubtedly serves consumer capital. Demand for dope, video games and food all results in expanding production, keeps the machine ticking over nicely. Obviously a...

Its free from being impacted by political corruption, true, but there are forms of corruption within capitalism which can undermine it, merely of a different nature. Though it is difficult to envisage a financial collapse strong enough to take the whole edifice with it, the recent credit crunch...

Why does this bring Vimothy so clearly to mind...

Perhaps- but what other tool would you posit using against such forces? I mean would you argue that it is reason which maintains these forces today or what? It seems rather than reason to be a kind of reduced humanism (or what Badiou terms animal-humanism) / biopolitics, which forecloses the...

If anything I prefer the application of Burial to theory than theory to Burial. And hence I prefer using the music as an imaginative-sensory tool to think about the theory...

Though basically I would add that judging anyone's mental health from internet postings is going to be pretty difficult, and often amounts to either an ad hominem assault or total disengagement from the argument at hand "don't listen to him he's fucking maaaad..."-- or the re-assertion of dull...

Its more the application of Burial to Derrida which is entertaining.

Classical music! Brahms (who I hate usually).

Can I nominate Thatcher for the follow-up thread on people who aren't yet dead but who you are waiting until they die so then you can wish that you could bring back from the dead just so you can kill them? Oh and Bono please of course... K thnks bye...

Cos I have had the experience where I'm reading a post thinking "yeah this is good shit" then realize that its a friend from school writing it... very odd.

"I can't go on... I'll go on..."

I agree. But as we concluded waaay upthread, context is all. Whether one can manufacture a new context then is the question to be addressed (presuming that we reject the mystical-religious along with the banalization of consumerism). I mean one approach is to reach a self-consciousness of the...

Paul: in general I'm in total agreement with you, just not in this particular instance. Perhaps you could treat it as a re-libidinizing, given the ghostly nature of Burial's music. If we take Kode9's idea that Dubstep requires the memory of Jungle/2steps doubletime in the body of the dancer to...

I think I've tried going to parties in a persona, but inevitably it rapidly collapses under the influence of the booze. Obviously I think it would be easier to maintain an online persona, because of the mono-dimensional nature of the information that others perceive about you, but perhaps its...

Ultimately they would probably correspond to things that you thought of pleasurable, maybe. I mean there are different ways of thinking about them... either- (a) pathological- masochistic, the perverse perhaps. or (b) second or third order pleasures- self-mediated, like reading an extremely...

No offence taken. Yer, Hauntology bored me for the most part but on the level of the music being so pedestrian. Burial is a cut above the rest I think, but still the pleasure resides at the level of the discourse (though that itself involving a visceral hedonic buzz).

Hahaha... is that meant to be a dig at me or HMLT? I would hope that I never get aggressive or rude, and I don't believe I do, (or reach for the ad hominems). Though borderline mentally ill and dabbling in psychobabble I can't disagree with... (though I'd add HMLT's theory was waay more onpoint...

Arrrgh. Where to start man! With "man" of course. Human nature is never a simple uncontested term- indeed one could probably map the alterations in human self-understanding via the different interpretations of "human nature" across historical epochs... Inevitably there is a biological form we...

Yes. I thought that about the first album actually (go and check my posting in the "best of 2006" thread!). More interesting to talk about than listen to for the most part... it fires up interesting ideas when considered in the abstract, but the actual listening experience (a sizable number of...