word-association philosophy, like the association of notes and melodies, sampling, dubbing, speeding up, slowing down, working into new complexities and simplicities, yadda yadda yadda.
:-)
j
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:33:32 -0400, Charles Brown
<cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> [lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida
>
> I find it entertaining but not very important. I can't recall now
> Justin's exact formula, but I believe it was something like this.
> Bertrand Russell also rather sharply distinguished his social commentary
> from his work in philosophy and mathematics. I don't recall any
> political or social commentary in _Human Knowledge_. And there wasn't
> much formal philosophy in (for instance) his _Unpopular Essays_ (title
> from memory).
>
> Carrol
>
> ^^^^
>
> CB: Years ago , when I asked Angela Davis about doing philosophy she
> suggested examining the relationship between music and philosophy. I
> mentioned this in a letter to Justin, and he sent me a tape of Ma Rainey
> songs, including "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ". Angela has written a book on
> Ma Rainey Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, and the blues so lets do
> philosophy at the juke joint in Black Bottom, with the guide that comedic
> logic :>) is superior to grandeloquent logic :>( .
>
> Recall:
>
> With the this ( or the that) philosophical approach maybe we might find play
> that women of color , lesbian and thespian, find fun ? We learned from
> Dido. Now we will learn from Bessie Smith.
> We need a party of a new type, a mardi gras of the people, a Detroit
> cabaret. Communists cannot rally workers to revolution with the classical
> dullness. We want sweet blues. Lets overcome sobriety, even as
> revolutionary seriousness has won so much.
> This would be in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party - a masquerade ball
> that crossdressers could enjoy. White men dressed as Red men, Sisters With
> Voices, dressed in Black and joys, and swimming in the harbor. It'll be a
> Mardi Gras of the People.
> When we have everybody laughing and rolling in the aisles, having a
> roaring good time, dancing (everyone wiggling their hips) and singing,
> reading poetry and rapping until the wee hours of the morning, we take off
> our masks and reveal ourselves as philosophers, serious funmakers.
> Our new comrades in revelry will say I want to learn how we do this.
> Then we could discuss a few paradoxes , why the insides the outside in
> this Cline bottle; and show how they are contradictions and quote Hegel's
> craggly melodies, putting all to sleep perchance to dream , of idealism and
> materialism.
> Then wake up the next morning and prepare a feast; and plan a
> yearlong holiday of this party of a new type, this comedic mode of
> seduction. And read Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Keep
> doing it and keep doing it; and change it based on what women want.
>
> Vive Jacques , Le Moor! Only Death is immortal. Vote No on E !
>
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