I read Sokal's brilliant pomo piss-take when it appeared a few years ago. I
think the article really deflated a lot of people's bubbles (esp. the sods
who published it).
I have been seriously considering tracking down Eshun's book. His Wire
article on Chain Reaction was excellent and his black music/sonic fiction
angle sounds wonderful. He seems to have enough good ideas that I could wade
through the references to dead/dying French philosophers.
And for the musical content of this message:
NP: Plastikman - Consumed (Heroin House via Detroit but where are the
Mentasm stabs? Dude!) ;-)
quoted 28 lines Off-topic but both of you might be into Alan Sokal's _Intellectual
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>Off-topic but both of you might be into Alan Sokal's _Intellectual
>Impostures_. WWW information:
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>http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
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>I know some dedicated Deleuze/Guattari/Virillio fans who have been very
>interested in this for a nubmer of reasons.
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>If you *are* into Deleuze/Guattari/Virillio/etc. and music journalism,
>check out Kodwo Eshuns _More Brilliant Than the Sun_ where he talks
>about black music and science fiction ("sonic fiction") including
>Underground Resistance, Lee Perry, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, etc. Eshun
>writes for The Wire magazine amongst others if you're wondering where
>you've heard/seen his name.
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>Erm, music - if you like ART styled techno check out John Braine's _A
>Shift Through the Shadows_ 12" on Headspace. Smooth rhythms and little
>melodies with a Funk D'Void mix too.
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