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I know I could just have concocted this as an example of an ideal Dissensus thread, but seriously: I'm just reading The Atrocity Exhibition for the first time and the twisting of language, incongruous noun-collisions, almost self-parodic austerity, etc., reminds me very much of Brass Eye and...

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The continual CD compilations of unearthed rare funk 7"s on Soul Jazz, Jazzman etc. suggest there must be a market for this kind of thing, but I never hear much talk about it. Personally I love it in small doses. Any thoughts? It's a weird situation in a way because the obscurities probably get...

Saw it on a blog somewhere, anyone know the original source?

I think I might like this kind of thing, can anyone recommend the single most crucial album from this scene for me to buy first?

Available for another week here. Christopher Hitchens on Leon Trotsky - in the last five minutes he starts arguing with Matthew Parris, it's showerfaces all round - includes the following gem: HITCHENS: I think we're finished. PARRIS: No, we're not. HITCHENS: Well, I have to be somewhere at...

what should it be? Not counting the Dubstep Warz/Various Prods/Burial Breezeblocks which I already have.

The band not the Bowie album. Any fans? Saw them do 'Things We Lost in the Fire' at Koko in Camden on Thursday as part of Don't Look Back thing, it was great. They're one of those bands where I just have no idea how popular they really are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hall_%28boxer%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_of_harmful_sensation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anophthalmus_hitleri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_ibn_al-Mu%27tazz Now hit me with some in return.

I'm eating 7-8 rashers a day, every day, at the moment.

Yesterday I read that in 1912 Marinetti brought the first exhibition of Futurism to London, and when it got a bad review he sent some henchmen to the house of the critic to beat him up. Does anyone know anything about this?

OK I promise this is the last time I will ever ask this or any other forum to help me with exams, but: On Friday I may have to do a very long essay on 'originality', and I'd like to do it on Adorno and the standardisation of mass culture. I've never actually read any Adorno. What should I read...

Worth getting? Boomkat says it's 2CD, what's on the second CD?

I know there are a million great Nietzsche quotes but this is one I've never seen quoted before: Nothing very new but it's interesting in that you don't think of Nietzsche as an anti-capitalist.

Has anyone read both? The story about Sally in GtB is so so similar to Holly in BaT - i.e. young gay writer comes to new city and starts intimate friendship with flighty, promiscuous, beautiful 18ish-year-old struggling actress who lies about her past and sponges off rich men - and written in...

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I know Dissensus is meant to be for discussion not for lazy exam cribbing, but if anyone could give me even the briefest summary of Adorno's views on the relationship between art and morality I would be very grateful. I do fully intend to read him one day, I just don't have time before Tuesday...

Is it out yet? I think the release date was meant to be the 12th but no sign of it on Boomkat, maybe they're just not stocking it.

Love all their collaborations, new album is less than 20 minutes long though, rip-off! Any other fans? Anyone know of anything similar?

I need something to listen to - less music, more talking - while I cook, has anyone got any suggestions? So far I've been enjoying Jon Ronson but I've run out.