[microsound] dolce & gabbana

[Andrew Shires <andrew.shires@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenric McDowell writes:
> > 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. 

When you say that, do you mean that you think it is not fashionable,
or that it is fashionable but you find it hard understand how it
became so?

> 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?

Because someone said it was cool?  I haven't read it (though one day
probably will try), but there are so many distillations of this stuff
in CD inserts, press releases, and record reviews that everyone can
"know" something about it and consider it relevant.  Maybe that's not
entirely right, but nor is it likely to be true that everyone who
talks about it has read and understood it.  As the song says,

"I'll only buy a book for the way it looks, 
 And then I stick it on the shelf again"



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