Re: [microsound] Adorno redux

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

been sprinkling sand over it when i pass by...
--- Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Its nice to see some kind of defense of poor old
> Adorno on this list.
> 
> I second this and feel that Adorno's crit of the
> culture industry is 
> spot on - even more so today...while I don't
> necessarily agree with 
> Adorno's stance on Jazz (yet I came to appreciate
> dodecaphonic music in 
> a new way thru his writings) I do see some validity
> in what he is 
> trying to express on that subject...and I also agree
> with Bill's 
> comment(s): "Adorno was rather looking at culture
> after industrial 
> capitalism to interrogate its most degrading
> aspects." And while some 
> people dismiss Adorno as a old school Marxist
> cultural curmudgeon (who 
> couldn't dance) I see most current (mis)readings of
> his work as simply 
> privileged and bourgeois. I think Adorno is very
> much needed in these 
> times.
> Also, reading the Situationists work a little closer
> might reveal some 
> irony a filter-feeding first reading at Uni might
> miss.
> Lastly, not only is electronic music dead but maybe
> post-modernism 
> needs a funeral too?
> 
> 
>
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