Notes. Words. La lutte finale. Languages. Approaches to writing history. Humorous british academics. Emulating the latter. Jogging. Sprinting.
Irmin - "Television is immensely interested in the political opinion of beat musicians, because they cannot talk. TV is not at all interested in the political opinion of people who also want socialism and a more human society since they can spell "it" out..." "Television knows that a "little bit", only a little bit can be included.But that this bit of the revolution that we want is included in the music. But you can destroy this little bit when you manipulate the musicians in such a way that they are forced to interpret their music with words. and this cannot work."
Maxime Rodinson's Muhammed, William Gibson, Eric Hobsbawm, anythin' by the General, Victor Serge's novels...
Bravo Nikki Keddie. Bra-effing-vo:"I think those on the left should not be seduced by postmodernist trends and should devote more effort to showing where these trends have diverted scholars from real-world struggles. This is not to say that some degree of relativism is incompatible with a progressive agenda, as is seen in works like Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition and Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. But much of what is done under headings like discourse theory, gender theory, deconstruction, postmodernism, and even postcolonialism has turned people who consider themselves to be on the left away from understanding real struggles in the real world to recondite points comprehensible only to the initiated. There need to be more penetrating critiques of these writings and trends."