Re: [microsound] Wired News :DJ Turns the Tables on Tradition

[jason.frank@xxxxxxx]

actually,

there was a comma delimiting the marxism from the (post) 
trendy speak and i was not intending the two to be read 
as one. if anything, marxism is far from in vogue as 
even many college professors have migrated over to the 
camp of "market populism". actually, few people realize 
the revelance of marx today. for example, almost no one 
knows that he was the one who coined the term capitalism 
and actually saw communism as not an opponent of 
capitalism but its logical progression. 

anyway, that's neither here nor there. i'm actually only 
opposed to the patterns of trendy speak which put a 
prefix on nearly every term. i mean come on, are we 
completely unable to define ourselves in any way save 
our spatio/temporal relationship to movements of thought 
we read about in college. won't some one grow the 
cajones to just give our period of existence its own 
freakin' nomenclature? 

microsound is cool, its a word that makes sense without 
referencing any particular master narrative.

but still, let me be honest, i'm part of the problem 
now. i've brought up everything that this list isn't 
about, and filled now two emails with it. sorry.  
> > but back to my earlier jab, is there some sort of 
> > relationship between marxism, (post) trendy academia 
> > speak, and microsound that i've been missing? there seem 
> > to be an awful lot of posts in these veins. come on, am i 
> > the only one that has figured out this music goes great 
> > with shooting shotguns, gennesse cream ale, double wide 
> > trailers, and misogynist displays of masculine might? 
> 
> I apologize if I don't have anything lucid to say, but considering the
> marxist discussion of art has been around at least since Walter Benjamin
> (circa WWII), it would be difficult to classify as "trendy".  And I
> apologize if you have to associate intelligent discourse as "trendy
> academia speak".  I blame our fine education system, encouraging work over
> though.  I forgot that it's cooler to be ignorant these days.
> 
> Oops, that would make ignorance trendy!
>  
> - c.
> _________________________
> Christopher Sorg
> Multimedia Artist/Teacher
> http://csorg.cjb.net
> csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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