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objet @
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Random Junk
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Date:
Sat, 31 May 1997 03:15:04 -0700
Subject:
Re: (idm) lotsa reviews
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in his review of the X-filly's neodisco dabblings, JSD writes:
quoted 2 lines "virtual". Plus 10, however, for using the phrase "paradigm shift"> "virtual". Plus 10, however, for using the phrase "paradigm shift" > (which is a Subconscious Records reference) later in the track...
hmmm -- rather, than, say...a Thomas Kuhn reference? As in the cat who coined the long since expired phrase ('Structure of Scientific Revolutions')? Sorry to be 'spottish about seemingly irrelevant realms (phil of sci), but after sitting very recently through too many college commencement addresses given by high-powered dilettantes on "quantum physics," the bloody "butterfly effect" and "paradigm shifts," this was just one too many a "shifty" reference to take... =-=-=-=signifier over signified signing off=-=-=-=