On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> But maybe that's because today I was in the bookstore browsing the memoir of Christopher Hitchens, "Hitch 22", and realized that all the sophistication of his Oxford Trotskyist education is fairly hollow considering what a reactionary shitbag he turns out as, whereas at the same time I am reading John Tilbury's biography of Cornelius Cardew, and realize that while Cardew's (and guitarist Keith Rowe's) Maoist politics were really stupid, the commitment exhibited by spitting in the face of the bourgeois avant-garde music world is worth a thousand "critical thinkers".
So the four years he spent at the Royal Academy of Music - waste of time?
D