RE: [microsound] dolce & gabbana

[Philip Sherburne <psherburne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nobody actually *reads* the stuff... well, that's not true, but many, many,
many who namedrop don't.  Just as many who cite Cage have never
heard/studied/engaged with his music, or read his own theories.

I think the emergence of critical theory programs in universities has a huge
amount to do with it. Like it or not, theory is trendy, and has been for
some time. Look at the number of rock bands who name themselves like
fragments of Language Poetry! Isn't there even a band called something like
(Is) It (A) Critical Band -- or something? I mean, PLEASE!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenric McDowell [mailto:kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: microsound
> Subject: [microsound] dolce & gabbana
> 
> 
> > Deleuze & Guattari. Their name is certainly circulating 
> with the same
> > superficiality as the latest fashion(able) item, but it´s 
> still a damn 
> > good
> > read. The problem is, of course, the namedropping, not D&G. 
> There, I 
> > said
> > the obvious.
> >
> I find it very hard understand how books like A Thousand Plateaus can 
> become fashionable. It took me three years of reading and 
> rereading to 
> really _get_ Deleuze and Guattari, especially in A Thousand Plateaus. 
> How can such dense writing feed the ravenous metabolism of fashion?
> 
> 
> -km
> 
> 
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