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sus
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And yet no intellectuals or artists advocate it because it's so untouchably lowbrow a take. Insight, or conformity?
sus
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It's not really about the left is it, I mean the right is really the party of "things were better in the past." My point is it's so ubiquitous both parties basically agree
mixed_biscuits
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What affirmation?
mixed_biscuits
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If you can provide anything that western progressives push that hasn't been pushed before then there is a viable alternative to conservatism of some sort!
mixed_biscuits
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Is that a note to yourself?
sufi
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF DIGITAL LIFE, 1.—F.: “More and more often, I feel as though I’ve lost touch with
the objects of physical space. All around me, physical space is becoming a limbo, a huge attic in which
objects randomly accumulate behind a closed door no one dares to open, terrified of the chaos that
awaits on the other side. Before, I used to know in the blink of an eye where to find any one of my
innumerable books; now it’s much more difficult, just as my relation to all things I’m not connected to
on the internet has become more difficult. On Google, I can’t ask where I put my keys; I can’t act upon
them. I can’t summon my books to my side. More and more actions are accomplished entirely on the
internet; those that still require physical action have become strange and nearly impossible. If someone
asks me to fill out forms and send them by mail, I become disoriented. It isn’t familiar to me anymore.
The thought of having to look for a paper I’m supposed to have in my possession causes me great
anxiety. Everything that isn’t digital suddenly seems fragile, lost, not to be grasped in any way, like
trying to find a needle in a haystack. And when I have to sift through papers, either those that I’ve had
for a long while or those that still arrive in too great a number, I tell myself with horror that all these
insignificant documents that I’m about to throw away—cinema tickets, tourism brochures, old bank
statements that I thought would one day compose a remarkably precise archive of my comings and
goings, etc.—might in time have acquired considerable value, as they became traces, testimonies, spurs
to recollection, and even, in a slightly more distant future, collectibles, historical documents, materials
for a work of art. In digital extension—I can’t help calling it that—at least we can keep everything
without having to choose.”
no it is a version suffering from greater retardation. your bullshitting has limits, you know.
at this thing in woolwich the whole place was awash with skunk smoke and i thought about how great it would be to lock you in a floatation tank there and play you nothing but 140 bpm hard techno for 12 months non-stop no let up no breakdowns no cartoon physics gabba absurdity no nothing. just looping millsian hard techno. then you will begin to hate drugs.
I told you time and time again. I have a proletarian hatred of culture and science. culture and science are conservative. Patty just doesn't believe in revolutionary terror, because he is a backpacking hippie. Even 60s culture was conservative and counter-revolutionary. There was no better days. It was all always fucking shit!
Scientific discoveries solve problems, yes. Artistic collaboration enriches the achievements of the species, yes. Art and culture as alienated spheres don't. bourgeois science doesn't. your thinking is too schematic, you and ghost want to invent a new priesthood and succumb to the exact same conservatism. It's honestly very disheartening conversing with you because you never ever make that next step. You have much better insights than most on this forum but then you want to be happy go lucky. Think more like a moody turk! throw corroding amulets into a sealed tomb!
william_kent
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I used to buy records off Martin the OG Eastern Bloc record shop guy from 808 State, he ducked out early and wasted his top ten hit money on a flotation tank centre
I wonder what he is doing now?
You anthropomorphize technology to a delitirious degree. In reality the vocabulary of electronic music haven't been explored to even a third of its potential. it is stigmatised by the limit set by bourgeois society. Art as private consumption.
The concrete guys like Bayle understood this, but in socialism cinemas for the ears will be as readily available as cinemas for the eyes. Electroacoustic theatres for everyone.
Jenks supports Spurs, there's no reason to take anything he says seriously on this topic, they will probably make 20 DVDs if they win the EL. Magical thinking if ever there was one.
You manage to even excel that by pretending algorithms are this new invention when in reality all that has changed is the speed at which they are computed.
As soon as art can talk about being revolutionary then that is exactly when revolution is off the table. Real revolution is basically civil war. 70s nyc was an antisocial cocaine dump and disco was built off the back of the FBI defanging black struggle by flooding neighbourhoods with crack and heroin. I love disco as craft but let us be absolutely fucking real here! It was hedonistic escape! (even if that escape was consummate due to the high levels of musicianship...)
You seem to think that as soon as you fall in love with something, it can't really be bad or even result from circumstances that were bad, which is how Gus can set up his silly straw men,. Learn to make your funkiness more mathematic!
This I agree with. But that exactly supports my point. It's not the tech, it's not even data, people in Latin America and even in Africa are subject to the same constraints. It's about how far capitalist culture can go, which is why it must be despised.
Joni has one great album and one banging hit song, but otherwise... And the good album is not the Blue album. It's song to a seagul.
no, I use a speech synth.
william_kent
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I'm normally onboard with your posts but I have to take exception here - when did Joni have one good tune? or album?
seriously, confused