[microsound] humorous beasts

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> seriously if every thread needs to include
> socialist dogma then retitle the list as "microsocialist" or something
> like that. Or at least include a warning on the homepage "all ye who
> enter beware PHD level discussion of Marxism". ;-) <- note the  
> winking.

some people are allergic to '-ism's' -- but then that's just another  
'-ism' isn't it, since any system of ideas or opinions can be labeled  
an 'ism' -- no?

Marxist analysis is one of many critical frameworks that can be  
applied to cultural discussions...and happens to be one which  
determines how I 'receive' art and music...

we all have a lens through which we color the world don't we?

again, the microsound list was intended to be a forum for discussing  
aesthetics and philosophy as applied to digital music -- so it stands  
to reason that a Marxist analysis would be one of many applied to a  
discussion...

if you see absolutely no relation between music and politics - or  
between art and philosophy or art and mathematics or any other  
interesting graft that provokes an interesting discussion - then this  
might not be the place for you...sorry, but I don't want this list  
turning into a trainspotting fanboy list and I feel it's my duty to  
keep the 'fanboy to philosophy' ratio adjusted according to the  
founders recipe...

and if this bugs you then the solution is very simple: start a list  
that reflects your own mission...

it's funny how when someone invokes Deleuze it isn't slapped down as  
'dogma' -- but utter the words 'Marxism' and all of a sudden  
everything that comes out of your mouth is branded as diatribe or  
dogma...it's just a framework -- and it happens to be my  
framework...so I'm not going to stop expressing it because it makes  
you uncomfortable...

if you don't like my world view then either be polite and delete my  
posts or unsub and start your own list...

I'm not here to make your microsound experience warm and fuzzy...

those wanting to express their opinions through the critical  
frameworks of Lacanian, Marxist, Schenkerian, Structuralist,  
Deleuzian etc. are encouraged to do so freely without intimidation  
from the vehemently anti-intellectual among us...just ignore them and  
their trolling posts...

oh and I do have a sense a humor - but your 'winky joke' was just not  
funny on any level! ;)

respect,
KIM




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