tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post116449383287023816..comments2023-10-21T07:44:20.549-04:00Comments on The Existence Machine: Hauntology IIRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1165335889190084152006-12-05T11:24:00.000-05:002006-12-05T11:24:00.000-05:00Ok. I think I mis-read your sign-off, too, adding...Ok. I think I mis-read your sign-off, too, adding to my sense that you were being snarky.<BR/><BR/>I guess part of the idea <I>is</I> to include Derrida in, as you put it, the natural flow of my reading. I'm not going to force myself to read him just because he sounds important. Enough people I respect value his work at least to some extent, so this makes me interested, this adds him to the list of people to include in the natural flow. But who knows when I'll actually get to him.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for stopping by.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1165325215687856612006-12-05T08:26:00.000-05:002006-12-05T08:26:00.000-05:00sorry, richard, i didn't mean to be sarcastic. my...sorry, richard, i didn't mean to be sarcastic. my comments were just my honest response to my reading of your text. i'd own up to being heavy-handed, though.<BR/><BR/>i don't enjoy derrida myself but i love dub. <BR/><BR/>of course, i could have read the wrong derrida. i read some essays (the final one being on nietszche's forgotten umbrella, the only essay i quite enjoyed). the edition i had was a parallel text with french down the one side and english down the other. he sounded witty and charming in the french - and i could imagine his students laughing along at his jokes - but in the english he just sounded plain pretentious. <BR/><BR/>this doesn't mean that i've given up on him, exactly, but when you said 'here's another one i have to read' i had a bad flashback.<BR/><BR/>i appreciate your point about wanting to join in the conversation but maybe there are more fruitful conversations that you can join in/start up by following the natural flow of your reading?<BR/><BR/>anyway, don't mean to chew your ear off here, maybe i'll go pick that slab of derrida up myself, stick on the dub and see if they don't make beautiful music together. or at least muzak.<BR/><BR/>cheers, fall guyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1165185625367832832006-12-03T17:40:00.000-05:002006-12-03T17:40:00.000-05:00Brilliant. Any particular reason for the sarcasm?...Brilliant. Any particular reason for the sarcasm?<BR/><BR/>As it happens, I <I>do</I> want to read the Derrida. When I say it's another book I feel like I <I>have</I> to read, I merely mean that I want to read it, or want to know what's in it, just like I might want to read any other work of literature or philosophy, in part so that I might take part in the conversation better, but also for my own benefit (which is largely the same thing anyway). The only burdensome aspect of it is a lack of time.<BR/><BR/>As for dub, well no shit I should listen to it. That's what I meant. And if I <I>read</I> something about it (like Toop's A to Z linked to by Jan above) it's so I can figure out which records to sample. I should have thought that was obvious. Thanks for the recommendation and the attitude.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1165174819610941752006-12-03T14:40:00.000-05:002006-12-03T14:40:00.000-05:00derrida versus dub.well, richard, you don't sound ...derrida versus dub.<BR/><BR/>well, richard, you don't sound so much like you want to read that derrida book, sounds like it might be a burden (yet another book that I feel like I have to read). <BR/><BR/>as to dub, well, you can READ about it but why not stick a slice of it on the CD player instead. i'd recommend Scientist V. Prince Jammy: Big Showdown (1980) at King Tubby's.<BR/><BR/>hell, why not pick up the derrida and read it to the dub. if you do, let me know what happens.<BR/><BR/>cheers, fall guyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1164573442496449642006-11-26T15:37:00.000-05:002006-11-26T15:37:00.000-05:00Richard--your thoughts on American folk are really...Richard--your thoughts on American folk are really interesting, especially since we often think of rootsy American music as having that "ineluctable ore of the authentic" that postmodernist theory wants to dismiss. Brendan Wolfe of The Beiderbecke Affair (he recently closed the blog up, unfortunately), has a ridiculous amount of knowledge of folk, blues, and jazz, and writes about race and "authenticity" in American music quite a bit.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11078151720195222677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1164550156580722582006-11-26T09:09:00.000-05:002006-11-26T09:09:00.000-05:00Excellent. Thank you!Excellent. Thank you!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1164539003419658082006-11-26T06:03:00.000-05:002006-11-26T06:03:00.000-05:00A to Z of dub by David Toop is where you want to s...<A HREF="http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/a_z_dub.html" REL="nofollow">A to Z of dub by David Toop</A> is where you want to start for a history of dub.<BR/><BR/>JanJanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465520048893073019noreply@blogger.com