third give me marks (marx) of out 10:
crudely put, the bourgeois are the people with the economic, cultural and political power and the proletariat are those without.
labour is people making stuff or providing services
third is saying:
1) the proletariat aren’t inherently ‘woke’, so proletariat music doesn’t necessarily have to be anti-capitialist, anti-racist, feminist, etc.
2) without a common enemy, human beings tend to fight amongst themselves
3) if the proletariat were to break free from the culture and institutions placed upon them by the bourgeois, the would end this infighting by uniting against thei common enemy (the bourge)
4) the bourge aren’t able to stop this internal conflict because they don’t have a common enemy. they don’t have a common enemy because the impact of political decisions doesn’t effect them
5) technology is the focal point of human civilisation. our environment, politics, communication, art, etc. is defined by it.
6) art can only be as important as technology if it is concerned with technological advancement
7) ben watson likes free improv because his discourse is concerned with commercialism vs anti-commercialism. to him, the factory is a signifier of commercialism
8) third sees factories as inevitable and thus doesn’t reject them
9) third places aesthetic merit in music that reflects the hyper-atomisation (division of labour) that you’d see in a factory, but in a social context (a club or rave for example)
10) just because a music can be international, that doesn’t disentangle it from the social context in which it arose
11) the class intermingling of society means that bourgeois and proletariat aren’t wholly accurate terms, but are useful
12) music that is left-wing doesn’t necessarily fit into third’s notion of proletariat aesthetics
13) as a fan of electronic music, third likes timbres to be novel and new rather than reflecting something we’re already aware of
14) third values escapism that is cognitive obliteration rather than a kind of stepford wives like sense of denial
15) third doesn’t mind music in which there may be individual tracks or artists that don’t fit into his broader aesthetic vision, but the overall genre should
16) third likes music that sounds like tangible materials, but sound detached from how they are made. 90’s hip hop’s not so great at this because you can hear drums, bass guitars, etc. whereas with jungle you don’t know what the fuck the sound is