oops I know I'm a little late but I sent this earlier & it didn't go thru:
my 2c: when I picked up SUN and read a random passage I thought it was going to be really pretentious and I also immediately thought of DJ Spooky's post-structuralist name dropping. the dif. is that where spooky references ideas by people like Deleuze & Guatari like he's showing off his comic book collection (sorry paul) Eshun actually uses their strategies i.e. his whole approach is to make the book a kind of neo-logism machine that churns out sci-fi metaphors on it's own... 1nce you accept that his approach is a kind of random mutation way of generating ideas then you can accept the occasional wack attempts at word-play as necessary by-products of a process that also achieves some extremely important insights (& poetic language) ...& more importantly strategies for creating new music & art--which is the same way D&G urge their writing to be taken: as a toolbox of strategies from which you can pick and choose the ones that work for you...or that you need for a particular job / eddie on 11/27/02 3:16 PM, Lester Kenyatta Spence at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Brendan Nelson wrote: > >> I guess that if Eshun was on this list he'd defend himself by pointing >> out that electronic/futuristic music is so new, comparitively, that the >> conceptual framework for describing it - in terms of its construction as >> well as of its effect on the listener - is yet to be developed, and so >> he's pretty much obliged to write in such a bizarre scat-poetry style >> when talking about Drexciya, UR, Alice Coltrane and Parliament. A rock >> journalist writing yet another Beatles book has decades of cliches and >> reference points to rely on, but someone writing about Drexciya has no >> real precedent to rely upon. Eshun certainly did take it to the extreme, >> but I think you're right in that, amidst the prosaic flights of fancy, >> there are a number of very good and very big ideas which he manages to >> put across in that book. >> >> Brendan > > I have SUN and like it. But with that said, I'm pretty sure that if Eshun > were here, he'd do something similar to what he did on the Afrofuturism > email list I'm on. Send a one sentence statement like: > > "Please remove me from the list." > > Then write a book called The 313 Reader. > > > > peace > lks > >
