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[luka]

“Is It Me or Society? I Can’t Tell:” Memphis Hip-Hop and the Slow Cancelation of the Future

Walker Armstrong analyzes the ’90s Memphis hip-hop scene through the “lost futures” perspective of cultural theorist Mark Fisher.

www.passionweiss.com

 

[wg-]

Are there any good books about memphis rap

Feel like it would be a good subject for a scurrilous trawl through minor figures with two average tapes

 

[luka]

not sure. i havent read that esssay i linked to either, although i might have a go at it later.

 

[wg-]

They re-posted a memphis reddit thread on POW recently too. that was quite good but it would be good to have a big long-form thing that isn't on the Internet

Lucas Foster’s Essential Introduction to the Memphis Hip-Hop Underground

In celebration of the late, great Lucas Foster, Passion of the Weiss proudly unearths some of his finest and unpublished works.

www.passionweiss.com

 

[version]

 

[line b]

not entirely sure I get it

 

[Clinamenic]

Huh, like those trying to analyze capitalist culture can’t approach it from any other angle but that? A miserablist attractor?

 

[Clinamenic]

“Meta-capitalist realism” would be a good name for what comes to mind for me.

 

[line b]

@version what do you think the tweet saying?

 

[luka]

you might be overthinking it Limburger it's not really complicated

 

[line b]

I really dont entirely get it. feeling pretty dim right now

 

[Clinamenic]

Maybe that any cultural criticism of capitalism tends to gravitate around this ominous sense that reality can’t be anything other than capitalism. That capitalist realism actually describes the impression made on the cultural critic, rather than the reality for everyone regardless of whether they engage in cultural criticism.

Really this might just be confusing things further though.

 

[line b]

thats what I think too

 

[line b]

this is the genius of stans method. Ive read CR twice

 

[Clinamenic]

Well I think it’s a good formal basis for finally getting past capitalist realism, and positively engaging with capitalism as a agnostic setting conducive to self-interest.

edit: “it” being that tweet.

 

[Clinamenic]

Leave CR on the shelf and pick it up on occasions for philology or something.

 

[Clinamenic]

Well I think it’s a good formal basis for finally getting past capitalist realism, and positively engaging with capitalism as a agnostic setting conducive to self-interest.

Well policy isn’t really agnostic, so not to be taken too literally I suppose.

 

[Clinamenic]

Invest in insight, save orders of magnitude more of cognitive labor than if you went about engaging with things as a proper specialist. Surf across intensities and detect their patterns from a higher order perspective, rather than diving into an intensity and spending your life there.

Analogous to capitalism itself, using resources to expedite the generation of resources. Exactly what biochemistry is about on the object level, the endogenous procurement of molecules qua resources that would otherwise naturally occur with exponentially sparser frequency.

 

[Clinamenic]

The highest order image I can apprehend here is extropy as a cosmic step function.

 

[Clinamenic]

In this sense, a refusal to read stands to be a profound asset (seeing as most serious books are dives into intensities rather than surfs across them) so long as progress is being made in terms of insight-building. Otherwise it’s just idleness I suppose, a liability.