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My conclusion is eventally my own inherent cuntishness will always show itself, a drive towards control and dictatorship. In terms of bands they operated best when this was utilized productively I suppose.

To point one- you are engaging in what is known as "presentism"- the mapping of today's consciousness/problematics onto those of the past. Inevitable, perhaps, but definitely to be resisted. I think the artifacts that civilizations have left us tell us enough to allow the conclusion that...

Also there is the question of what people show you over the internet- ie: their persona. If I told you I have a predilection for poor taste knob jokes in real life that might surprise you, as I have chosen to not engage in the telling of poor taste knob-related gags on this forum. So your...

Definitely agree- I see nothing wrong with changing my view. Its a weakness to defend to the death a standpoint once it has become irrevocably weakened. But that is another issue to personalizing discussion. My view is that personalization is to be resisted, but is inevitable. After reading...

Right, but this is why it might be interesting to posit the sociopath as a theoretically virtuous figure. Perhaps!

Nah its really about message board interaction-- do you judge someone as a person or as a conglomeration of arguments at a given juncture? Do you build up fro what they say into a map of what their personality is like? Is that accurate at all? If not is it better to judge them on what they...

Nah its really about message board interaction-- do you judge someone as a person or as a conglomeration of arguments at a given juncture? Do you build up fro what they say into a map of what their personality is like? Is that accurate at all? If not is it better to judge them on what they...

Cos in consumerism you have an unending expansion of services and goods offered on the market. And also a sense of individualism which is totally alien to the Roman experience. Coupled with the idea of the atomised individual as "self-made artwork" to be constructed as an identity mediated by...

A "Satanism of the soul" is a fantastic term, cheers! No what I am referring to is a certain kind of spectacle, a relation mediated through images, based on aggressively regulating social norms via the exploitation of another basic human trait (along with fear and desire for physical pleasure)...

So tell me about Mare then. I know they only released one ep back in the day and have done nothing since. TELL ME MORE...

Just got this. The silly mock-classical done in a Wendy/Walter Carlos-esque fashion analogue synth interludes are somewhat pointless. But The prog the metal and the jazz bits are fucking brilliant. And the pomp-prog horror film score meets Lynchian jazz piece "Psalm" is mindblowingly good...

On this I'm 100% agreed. His best tracks (aside from Archangel) are South London Burroughs, Unite, Versus, and the recent Burial remix... He's at his best when in "pop" mode or else in dark rolling territory... rather than wishy washy lachrymose ambient-step. And of course he's a one trick pony...

Amen. Let us do away with tired psychologism, and attempts at amiable faciality. All hail the cold rationalist dawn.

The album ain't all that, but Archangel is by far the finest track on there, and undoubtedly amongst the best Burial's produced AND probably the greatest individual single-length moment in recorded music of the last 12 months.

I would add the manufactured empathy-porn of the metaphysics of pity too... pleasure, fear, and competitive almost oppressive mediatised pseudo-empathy are the toolkit of the modern society.

Good luck with the future projects Woebot.

Their notion of what it meant was yes. And what it's place within their society was distinct. Consumerism is on the one hand an economic system designed to bolster ever expanding production of excess goods and services. On the other it is a form of relation between human beings and each other...

I don't know- you can trace the emergence of consumer products back to the Edwardian era can't you, maybe a little earlier. Then there was the emergence of the science of marketing with Eddie Bernays in the 1920s or so, and then a series of further extensions until the whole system was in place.

Reason is the only thing which lets us escape the pleasure principle and its manifold traps, along with the obverse the human-as-animal. The project for a new human or the human as the disappearance of man (as anthropological self-understanding) or as project or as opening is THE politically...

Reason is the only thing which lets us escape the pleasure principle and its manifold traps, along with the obverse the human-as-animal. The project for a new human or the human as the disappearance of man (as anthropological self-understanding) or as project or as opening is THE politically...