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last week at vinylmania i picked up a copy of the North compilation on Deconstruction. Came out in 88. Lots of stuff by T-Coy. of course what seems "rare" in the States is common in England, and vice versa . . . . among my recent jungle finds in NYC stores are Sharon Forrester "Love Inside"...

Don't all considered positions begin as "personal beefs" or "personal affinities"? Otherwise, thought would be empty and formal, free of content, pale, bloodless . . . . Even if K-Punk would probably argue otherwise himself, I think the proper procedure is to tenderize the beef. Make it...

Despite my comments above, I can see where Luka's coming from here . . . . Mark is exceptionally talented, has "everything he needs," and so he'd probably do well to "cut the fat off the meat, reduce it down" and WRITE BOOKS to rival Baudrillard and others As for the "silly neologisms," I tend...

a couple of points. first, on k-punk. then, the marijuana debate. (1) so far as i know, k-punk's the best thing going on the internet. if anyone knows of anyone or anything near as good, show your cards now and if we didn't have k-punk to play gadfly, i expect "dissensus" would die a quick...

I think the "Chronic" piece is good so far as it goes, but I think the last paragraph, if expanded upon, could swallow the entire piece . . . . Certainly there have been many "creative" individuals, in the 20th Century, who smoked marijuana or hash on a daily basis. Louis Armstrong, the whole...

agreed. this is why i intend to read spinoza and zizek.

I'll put them on my reading list, though I can't guarantee they'll be near the top. Feel that I need to read a lot of other authors before returning to Derrida. Think I've read 3 or 4 of his books. I realize he's written 10 times that many, but I'm not a completist . . . . Also, HLA Hart is...

I find legal theory fascinating, but not law per se At the end of the day I prefer political philosophy, critical theory, etc But when it comes to writing, I'm much better at short essays or legal briefs than research papers or hardcore scholarly articles. Accordingly, the choice of profession

Yes, law and religion are definitely bound up together as organizing principles for society. And you can throw "morality" into the equation as well. Positivism (Austin, Holmes, Hart) attempted to separate law from religion and morality, but at the moment the most influential legal theorists...

Because on the radical republican theory (which I don't subscribe to, by the way), participation in law & politics allows citizens to develop their capacity for reasoned discourse and to exhibit public (as opposed to private) virtue . . . . Nor am I suggesting that K-Punk would take this view...

I had never heard of Zizek until K-Punk began to excerpt passages from him. Now he's at the top of my reading list. Along with Spinoza. Had paged through the "Ethics" several years ago, but figure I must now make concerted effort. In any case, any recommendations as to where to begin with...

I'm not a pneumatic, and I ain't phlegmatic. Generally melancholic. Very rarely choleric, still less sanguine. In K-Punkian nomenclature, I'm probably a Spiritual.

Anne Sexton? As for the living, Darcy Steinke, even though I've never seen a photo of her.

yes and no. yes, because specialization is the price of luxury, of not living in a city of pigs. it's an economic proposition. the specialist, by devoting his time to one matter, frees others to devote time to other matters. the result is that each is conversant in only one or two subjects...

i didn't think i was demonizing lawyers. if anything, i was offering a qualified defense. i think mark's position is overly abstract and in the final analysis untenable. but it's not without merit . . . . everything depends on how you slice and dice the issues. hannah arendt could in one...

if a lawyer wants to be "engaged," he can certainly take up the cause of children, of immigrants, of workers and trade unions, of oppressed minorities and state prisoners . . . . but in so doing, he must frame his arguments to persuade courts. he cannot be radical or extreme. he must invoke...

As someone who recently graduated law school and passed the New York bar, but has yet to motivate himself to get a job working as a lawyer, I took some interest in the heated exchange between K-Punk and Luka concerning lawyers. Here's the best reason for thinking ill of lawyers. They are...

Back in the days when we simply read other people's blogs, one of the most interesting exchanges that I encountered, on K-Punk, Woebot, Blissblog, concerned "bad taste" in pop music. For the most part, the discussion centered on how it was considered in "bad taste," circa 1985 to 2000, to like...

Curious to know. Judging from remarks in John Bitumen's "Happy Hardcore" thread, there are still a lot of pirate stations that play classic jungle and hardcore??? And I've head that in the North of England many of the clubs that used to play Northern Soul have now changed over to playing Old...

I'll have to investigate. Sounds like "Dave" is the person everyone else has in mind. However, I've been told by numerous people, including "Andrew" himself, that he's Tim "DFA" Goldsworthy's older brother . . . . Is it possible that there are more than two sons in the family?