OKAY SO let's say that we accept the newly popular model of the universe that reduces everything that is to a "record" of affirmations - the "universe as information" or the catchier, "it-from-bit" account. Now, we also observe that we maintain the capacity to perceive negations, absences, etc. such as the separation of words in this sentence (a blank space, visually and functionally). So shouldn't this mean that, as reality can't be anything but a set of affirmations, our capacity to produce negations renders us at least as powerful, if not more so, than the mechanisms determining the entirety of existence? Unless we suppose that the presentation of an absence is itself an affirmative act...
I think all of these meetings would be really uncomfortable...
Walter Benjamin,
Jean-Luc Godard,
Yves Saint Laurent,
David Ogilvy,
Maurice Ravel,
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Glenn Gould
Everything else: Brother Reade, Royksopp, Moving Units, Minotaur Shock, Panda Bear, Alex Gopher, Four Tet, Stereolab, the Faint, Lee Perry, David Bowie, the Valentinos, everything Nova Tunes, Agouria, Ratatat, Venetian Snares, Scissor Sisters, Busdriver, Aesop Rock, Murs, Cee-Lo, the Ramones, the Clash, the Presets, the Rapture, the Go! Team, the Doors, select other bands that start with "the", Charles Mingus, Klaus Nomi and so on.
Classical: Ravel, Scriabin, Faure, Poulenc, Satie, Debussy, Prokofiev, Liszt, Bach, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Khachaturian, Bartok, Szymanowski, Franck, Grieg... Glenn Gould, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline Du Pre, Steven Isserlis, Peter Wispelwey, Edgar Meyer, Artur Rubinstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Arturo Michelangeli, Martha Argerich, Murray Perahia
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, La Cage aux Folles, True Stories, Masculin Feminin, Diva, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Christopher Guest films, Wes Anderson films, Jason Schwartzman films, Belle du Jour, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, The 400 Blows, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Manhattan, Velvet Goldmine, Party Monster, Muppet Treasure Island
Six Feet Under, Flight of the Conchords, Sex and the City, Queer Eye, Project Runway, Top Gear, LA Ink, Strangers with Candy, Penn&Teller, Weeds, Daria
Borges, Sartre, Foucault, Adorno, Benjamin, Deleuze, Simone de Beauvoir, Osamu Dazai, Heidegger ("a work, by being a work, makes space for that spaciousness"), everything Woody Allen.