mystical fetishes

[Clic-Clic Alondra <a_clic_clic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's where I'm at.  I don't suppose the trascendental and the fetishized 
object are diametrically opposed.  They're hardly categorically exclusive.  
I would be careful not to cast technological fetishization as a latter 
development that somewhat overcomes "primitive" transcendental longing 
(Girard's ontological sickness).  Rather these are thoroughly 
cross-referential phenomena.

Think Autechre, trying hard for 6 years or so to purge a certain ghostly 
humanism that turns up in the form of a melody.  Think Terre Thaemlitz, so 
thoroughly committed to the language and the practice of that purge that he 
would seemingly succeed if it were not for the sheer heroics of the effort 
(not to mention the ethical aspect of his/her "critique") and its unwitting 
humor.

Adorno, anyone?  Or Coil?  Worship the glitch.

Alondra
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