Re: [microsound] dolce & gabbana

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/01/02 8:55 AM, Kenric McDowell at kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think it's best to avoid the notes 'D' and 'G' on the keyboard for right
now, anyway. Also , it isn't a good idea to stare at 17 year olds. They
think you're cooler that way.


> Deleuze & Guattari / Dolce & Gabbana, Faciality / Facial...
> 
> On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 12:28 AM, Øivind Idsø wrote:
> 
>> Kenric McDowell wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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?
>> 
>> The book itself isn´t fashionable (seeing A Thousand Plateaus together
>> with
>> Harry Potter and Lord Of The friggin´ Rings on the bestseller lists
>> would
>> just be too surreal), but their name is. It´s an easy namedrop. It´s
>> got a
>> certain catchiness to it, making it light and fluffy, much like
>> Dolce&Gabbana.
>> 
>> My girlfriend´s sister was recently wearing a sweater with the huge
>> letters
>> "D&G" on the front, and for a brief moment I was uncertain as to
>> whether or
>> not this seventeen-year old was actually promoting Deleuze&Guattari or
>> just
>> Dolce&Gabbana. I decided it was the latter and did not enquire about
>> faciality.
>> 
>> That´s fashion for ya.
>> 
>> /Øivind/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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