Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 1 Feb 2002 18:38:37 -0000 Issue 478

["luke (c)" <luke@xxxxxxxxx>]

david turgeon wrote:
> 
> At 18:38 2002-02-01 +0000, you wrote:
> >Actually I must tell a story - all too true - along this line.  Once
> >many years ago I was in a club in SF and found myself discussing
> >theory with someone then quite active in the dance music "scene"
> >here.  I mentioned that I was fond of Derrida and found his
> >techniques quite useful, at which point the other told me that my
> >deconstructionist was strictly for "UC Berkeley wankers" and that the
> >only people worth reading were Deleuze and Guattari.
> 
> i don't know, to me (warning: subjective assessment ahead) the only
> philosophy one needs to read is first period wittgenstein, though that
> might sound shocking (or old school) to some.  anyway, the _tractatus_ is
> more like a philosophical construction kit than an actual philosophy.  i
> must admit to have failed to understand much about the formal logic parts
> though.


how very 

 "..but I like their old stuff better than their new stuff"


Luke