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Re: [microsound] humorous beasts
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On 30-Sep-06, at 12:48 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:
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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