September 2011
6 posts
“However much one affirms questioning of the idea of a simple essence as the...”
– Nahum Chandler
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my dissertation [or, another "what it is about"...
to clarify, at least for me…lol
my dissertation is about the historicity of aesthetics that are found at the turn of — and through the mid — 20th century in what is called Black Pentecostalism in the US. i’m interested in the enlightenment split of aesthetics from theory — following a Kantian philosophy — and how this historic split animates those disciplines...
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can I Cry?
But when [Tamar] brought them near [Amnon] to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.” She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do anything so vile! As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the scoundrels in Israel. Now therefore, I beg you, speak to the king; for...
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"Afro-Arabic Saut, the Ring Shout and Pentecostal...
This chapter is concerned with two things:
1) Discovering within Enlightenment philosophy – since Hume and Kant, though applying pressure on the development of the American Enlightenment by way of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin – the fact of its being a collection of choreographic protocols and itineraries. We will discover this choreophilosophy by thinking through the concept of aversion...
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“[N]oise not some linear accumulation of signals (which would still subordinate...”
– “Sound Art and the Sonic Unconscious” (Christopher Cox)
love [a scrap]
love is the impossible extension of an ordered time; the desire of impossible nontime where the joy of music plays consistently eternal; the raptured rupture produced in sounds of bass, hand-claps, foot-stops, melismas and falsettos. love is seeking a new world where one can linger.
