[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[Paulo Raposo]

really perplexing that a politics graduate claims politics as a poor  
way to discuss sound/music.
and more intriguing that someone that is, we hope, interested in  
politics, cannot find a way within it
to discuss and think about sound (activity).
Is sound and music separable from political realm and its ruling  
paradigms?
what is an author (like Foucault asked)? where does he come from? what  
is made of?
or  are we in such an oblivious condition that we tend to aestheticize  
sound and music as the fascist attempted to aestheticize politics?
the great living philosopher Giorgio Agamben wrote:
“politics is the sphere neither of an end in itself nor of means  
subordinated to an end; rather, it is the sphere of a pure mediality  
without end intended as the field of human action and of human thought”

and speaking of Agamben, for those interested there's great stuff here
http://v2v.cc/v2v/The_Power_and_the_Glory
and a lot more easy to find in yotube on paradigm and contemporaneity.

paulo raposo
http://www.sirr-ecords.com

On Jan 20, 2009, at 8:19 PM, guiver ben wrote:

> i think politics (and im a politics graduate) are often a poor way  
> to discuss sound/music.
>
> i like authors / people who are a bit more emotionally literate: i  
> think the alt indie scene (well the more mainstream alt indie  
> scene ) in the 90's was compared by someone to going to church,  
> which i found quite amusing. it was the straight faced ness of it  
> which i think appealed to the joker...sometimes things are so  
> wooden, it bores the shit out of me and kills the life in things.
>
> satire might be a good place to start. pisses of all those pofaced  
> types to begin with, and brings in humour, which is surely an under- 
> rated quality in any kind of communication.
>
> that said i wouldnt wish to dismiss anyone who wanted to discuss  
> something they found very serious, i just think there's a danger of  
> taking some things too seriously. and russell brands a situationist,  
> apparently...
>
> can anyone think of a good article / paper they read on music that  
> made them laugh? i'd be most interested.
>
> best
>
> ben
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/20/09, CraqueMat <craque at craque.net> wrote:
>
>> From: CraqueMat <craque at craque.net>
>> Subject: Re: [microsound] 'that's edutainment'
>> To: microsound at microsound.org
>> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 8:07 PM
>> Is there a way to talk about music without using ism's?
>>
>> I'm not being an ass, this is genuine curiosity.
>>
>> Sometimes I'm bothered by the way I can't be a part
>> of a conversation
>> just because I haven't had time to read a book (and I
>> read a lot).
>>
>> Damian Stewart wrote:
>>> Stephen Hastings-King wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2. these days, everyone's a situationist.
>>>
>>> could you explain this a little? i only came across
>> the situationists quite
>>> recently...
>>>
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