"The dictatorship of the bureaucratic economy cannot leave the exploited masses any significant margin of choice because it has had to make all the choices itself, and because any choice made independently of it, even the most trivial – concerning food, say, or music – amounts to a declaration of war to the death on the bureaucracy. This dictatorship must therefore be attended by permanent violence."
-Guy Debord (La societe du Spectacle)
Alright, so here's the deal.
Once every month from now on [in a while] I will be uploading a fifteen track playlist along with a PDF of a work of philosophy that in some way either relates (albeit sometimes only tangentially) to music in general or to the content of the songs in each playlist. These playlists will be available to download through Google Documents (it's open to the public, so you don't need to have a Google account to download the .zip file) and will stay up (hopefully) indefinitely.
Enjoy and let me know if you have any other ideas that would help to spread the cause of good philosophy, art, and lateral education throughout the internet.
1.) "Banged and Blown Through" - Saul Williams 2.) "Time and Space" - The Cinematic Orchestra 3.) "Second and Dryades" - Galactic 4.) "Genesis" - Justice 5.) "Mic Check" - Rage Against the Machine 6.) "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" - Gnarls Barkley 7.) "Mrs. Officer" - Lil Wayne 8.) "No More Pain" - 2pac 9.) "Imitosis" - Andrew Bird 10.) "N.Y. State of Mind" - Nas 11.) "Get It On" - Grinderman 12.) "Ghosts I" - NIN 13.) "All My Money's Gone" - Mike Henderson and the Blue Bloods 14.) "Prison Sex" - Tool 15.) "Stetson Kennedy" - Wilco 16.) The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
"[Her] flashing eyes, her aching lips, her heart-ending moans, those I had imagined, an ongoing list, so minute and distracting that long after, when the sheets were gathered, wet with sex, cold with rest, I did not know who lay beside me..."
Eroticism is efflorescence. It is a flowering supplication, yielding the production of a triplicate blossom - a ménage à troisof inevitable vampirism, leaving with it the impenetrable truth that everything flowers at the edge of hesitant restitution.
Consider, for instance, the conjoining separation of Reason and Understanding in relation to its pivoting intermediary Judgment. As parerga, Judgment frames (both in separation and unification) the notions of Reason and Understanding, thus granting rise to a truth which may only be read beneath the surface (or between the margins). It is here that a Critique of Judgment (and, at its very heart, Knowledge) assails all essence into the ineffable unraveling of an infinitely Virtuous Circle – a consistence of reparation and re-reparation bound within the mind’s conscious incessancy towards a lustful accretion.
What then, in light of such recondite delineation, and given the minimal expanse of all that can be deemed as separate from the conspiratory nature of modernized aesthetic simulation, would a Critique of Desire call for? Would it be a partition aside from veneration? Would it ever be aside at all?
The Critique of Desire would call for a bilinear juxtaposition of the Critique of Judgment in order to present, in its flesh, a knowledgeable recognition of all that stands to be fetishized through its inherent eroticism. This fetishization, like myth like history, battens with it a tertiary deconstruction that should (with an amative alacrity) be viewed as concomitant. Such an originate structure would, however, by its very nature necessitate a call for an irresistible synonymity of translation:
1.) Consumption acting as Reasoning.
2.) Reception acting as Understanding.
3.) Apportion acting as Judgment.
It is important to note, upon the agency of this analogic reciprocity, that Apportion should not refer to economy here. It is best to first understand that Love is by no means an economy of possession; it would then only stand to reason that Desire (acting, in itself, as a “marginized” phase of connectivity) could not exist within the realms of a possessive economy. No, by Apportion the means of conveyance suggest instead a malleable equilibrium (a constancy of ceding) – a giving almost seemingly out of precondition, out of desire, and perhaps even out of necessity itself.
This Apportion, in end, acts both as intermediary and unifier within the bordello of Desire (much as Judgment acts within the realm of Knowledge), ultimately pivoting against the notions of Consumption (a conscious taking and hence the Reasoning of this Desire) and Reception (an active receiving and therefore subsequently the Understanding of this Desire).
Thus, through a comparative elucidation, the seed of this initial flowering may be seen, in many regards, as coming to a head… But this, of course, would call for a “seduction”; and that for a separate simulation.
"And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day." - Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
