Responding to this recent Woebot piece... http://www.woebot.com/2007/06/thoughts_on_blogging.html Woebot turns to theory and how "Stuff I picked up and read more recently, Badiou and Spinoza, (unlike the Virlio, Rorty, Deleuze, Popper, Bhaba, Gilroy and McLuhan I'd read in the past) just didn't seem to have any bearing on music."
Which is interesting given that Badiou's Art category of truth process would seem incredibly appropriate to understanding why movements rise and fall, the focus upon the event as rupture in the fabric of the situation itself, and the evils which befall them upon the way. Indeed the battle for the soul of dubstep at present seems to embody this very clearly... (does it fall to the laziness of re-presenting the situation as variously "slowed down drum and bass" or "nu-digi-dub" or does it resist and continue with its process?)
Here's where we discuss Badiou and music (and probably correct my horrendous mis-readings of him...!)
Which is interesting given that Badiou's Art category of truth process would seem incredibly appropriate to understanding why movements rise and fall, the focus upon the event as rupture in the fabric of the situation itself, and the evils which befall them upon the way. Indeed the battle for the soul of dubstep at present seems to embody this very clearly... (does it fall to the laziness of re-presenting the situation as variously "slowed down drum and bass" or "nu-digi-dub" or does it resist and continue with its process?)
Here's where we discuss Badiou and music (and probably correct my horrendous mis-readings of him...!)
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