[microsound] Re: comfort of thinking

[tasty radish <tastyradish@xxxxxxxxx>]

there is a lot of thinking, a lot of connections made
in the comment below, locked into one stream of
conciousness. 

If its unknotted you have: 

Looking back at the Glory Past is what passes for
thinking, today in dominant culture. And this thinking
in the dominant Euro culture of consumer-Spectacle
happy-me life has no global conciousness or discussion
of the "silence"... 

I don't think it is really the job or even in any way
realistic to imagine this list's discussions/comments
working like a political Party or early modern
avant-gardist group, in the sense of holding THE road
map or developing a manifesto for how to break this
"silence", or even espousing THE new revolutionary
awareness, etc. (it is not unified by a certain number
of 'thinkers', etc.... rather it is an open space
around certain aesthetic practices... such a framework
creates very different productions then a
more-controlled list space with certain ideological
agendas/positions/frameworks, etc...).  

Still, I hear you on the very idea of art/cultural
production (& thinking about it) being truly connected
to what is going on in the world now, being really
important. How this "connection" is manifested is a
whole other story... Don't you think it comes out many
ways, particularly now?  Unless we are merely
repeating past works (like Borges' story about the
writer who was so taken with Don Quixote that he
re-wrote it word for word), then there is always
something of the present in a new work, that any one
of us does.  Whether the new work is essentially
re-cycling/re-commodifying the dominant
asleep-at-the-wheel culture or any number of other
possibilities is a vital question, I still think  (and
NOT to get all agitprop or populist about "art",
either...)  

After all, this is all post-war work...  And that is
not that long a period.  A remarkably bloody period...
but that is another story (or is it?) 

hey, do people think that microsound is post-post war
sound/music and if so how... is there a future
suggested in the aesthetics of failure...?  Perhaps
one where the human is not bound solely to a heroic,
at the least... 

?
- A

>..europe now in the post-war times, ppl are
collecting >more stuff(money, belongings) and thinking
less globaly >(the majority does so) and less are
thinking on sience >and the future and developement,
many have lost their >honour for money and comfort.
the same is here, where it >is very easy for thinking
ppl to discuss past (beat the >old horse) rather than
generate new ideas(apart form >seeing old gurus in new
angles) - this is the comfort of >thinking.


		
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