Re: [microsound] [ot] Derrida

[Trace Reddell <treddell@xxxxxx>]

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From: "Bill Jarboe" <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  Many great tunes start as deconstructions.

I would interpret Derrida to say that ALL great tunes start as 
deconstructions. I get neither the sense of "death-bed" anxiety as an impetus 
for deconstruction nor a sense of the "loser". Rather, the action of 
deconstruction is what any living organism DOES in order to exist in its 
environment. Lefebvre writes that a living organism has neither meaning nor 
existence when considered in isolation from its extensions and from the space 
that it reaches and produces. All organisms are reflected and refracted (that 
is, deconstructed) in the changes that they wreak on their environment or 
ambience.

Derrida is so playful, and open to the multiverse of human experience and 
being. I've never understood how he came to be associated with such a dire and 
dour cycle of inward, self-consuming literary crit. He's one of the most 
life-affirming litcrit writers/activists I've ever encountered. And the most 
microsonic. "Plato's Pharmacy" is one of the top 5 microsound works ever 
written. Talk about sample-based granular literary synthesis!

-=t



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