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a third antagonist to the fluid and the ordered is the destabilized, the free and chaotic, as in jazz. what bahktin called the carnevalesque, representing the disordered barrage of the sensory-affective now, polyphonic and heterogeneous

i've thought sometimes along similar lines but more in terms of whether there is an affective dimension to it does a chord progression structure correspond to a particular affective logic vs. more fluid tonal movements. if we think of the logic of chord progression in affective terms, it is a...

the big implication -- which anyone feeling any sort of attraction towards either side should recognice -- is that it's impossible to conceive of either side independent of the ones they oppose

it's hilarious this type of cultural leveraging goes on in the battle between these groups. everything is a psychotic battle of subversion and spite. soon they will interlock in their own orbit and spin off the board completely

you should try and get off the internet for a period versh. it can leave this drab overlay on your imagination of the world. every nook and corner mapped out, accounted for, assimilated into the whole. especially twitter with its tendency to assign position and value to everything. reject its...

i don't think it's a totally new thing this way of listening to songs in terms of imagining them as soundtracks to a film about you but it certainly has become more of a default modality in a way that feeds heavily back around to the production side

lol i thought the "reviews" were only just blurbs

there is a general principle i've found that when you push through the layers of fakeness at some point you get to a new sense of real yet ive always only gotten severely bummed out by girls who moan like they do in porn. it throws me out the zone

if i remember it right Barthes says that the pornographic is by nature un-erotic because it cuts off the image from any deeper levels of engagement. it says "this is what sex is, exactly this and nothing more." my idea is that modern culture machine is doing the same kind of thing by enforcing...

it's funny with things like hollywood movies, where you basically have an entire tradition of cultural production centered around sexual fantasy which is now under pressure to desexualize its content and avatars so that it feels like the different layers are subverting each other: what is the...

i have on more than one occasion found myself coerced by biological urges to share my bed with the menopausal demographic and i will not have this matter slip into the dark seas of taboo!

i've caught several glimpses of people on twitter discussing the problematic nature of relationships with age differences above like a minimum very alienating i thought -- it's this belief you sense being formulated that everything about sex is culture, negotiable, amorphous, depthless. no such...

of course if your life repeatedly validates and feeds into this anxiety it can break into something skizoid in nature - like those weird passing thoughts you (or maybe just me) had as a child that you fx were somehow retarded and everyone else was just playing along, pretending you were normal -...

yes, that sounds right. i was thinking about how people's different reactions to this basic anxiety is something that gives rise to a large part of ones personality. some opt to just conform to the way most people see things and identify with that outer layer of understanding as ordinary...

i don't remember actually

I suspect a fundamental part of how I relate to the world can be traced back to some early childhood instance of misunderstanding something that someone else had apparently understood. Maybe of being exposed of that misapprehension to others and perhaps feeling ridiculed if it was something...

i don't have anything against being suspicuous about unconscious ideology or how it's lodged in communications and images but this is the about regalia and union jack and that stuff isn't it? straightforward signifiers of nationalism. no deeper stratums at work here. it's not really interesting...

of course it is significant whether or not there is zeal behind a communication or not ideology is not some alien force that lives on in the vessels of cultural detritus independent of human interest

those things belong to a political world whose signals have gone out of circulation. they are no longer currency, there is no positive or negative charge - no message besides the reference to the period, just like a 50s movie poster or something

also working my way through The Recognitions. something i hadn't seen expressed that much about it is how beautiful the writing is. strip away the erudition and network of references, a good 90% of which i don't get anyway, and what's left is some of the best prose i've ever read.