>not baiting are you Doug?
Well maybe jsut a little.
>At 06:14 PM 14/02/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>kelley wrote:
>>
>>>isn't there some path between adornian (dennis r.. -- is that
>>>right?) crankiness and the glorification of popculture?
>>
>>I sure hope so. That's the path I'm looking for, or sometimes
>>delude myself into thinking I've even found. Of course, you run the
>>risk of looking like some wacked out cult stud, mixing Deleuze in
>>one sentence with Madonna in the next....
>
>
>this could be and probably often is done in many stupid ways
>but not all ways of doing this would be stupid
>i'd even venture to suggest they could be in the same sentence, as
>in 'I wonder would Deleuze's work on 'the refrain' contribute
>anything to a reading of Madonna's most recent musical style?' -- as
>yet unexciting perhaps, but not automatically stupid.
Not automatically, no. And as you know, I quite like Madonna. But the style of juxtaposing "high" and "low" has become a bit of a formula, hasn't it?
Doug