a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026soundcloud.com/dnlwlch/lube...soundcloud.comLubed wading wriggler gnawingListen to Lubed wading wriggler gnawing by Daniel Welch #np on #SoundCloud 020
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026politics comes prior to philosophy even if we would like it not to. philosophy is almost always a retrospective thing we overlay onto experience/politics etc to make sense of them, to justify to ourselves and our community why we did xyz 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026idk if you really need to get the basis of reality 'right' as a precondition to make 'correct' judgements about what to do politically — seems better to me to start where you already are and think from there. otherwise ur just gambling on unverifiable metaphysical claims to justify your politics 110
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026youtu.be/PiLwEIDJSCMyoutu.beThe New Stone Age (2003 Digital Remaster)YouTube video by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Topic 020
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i hate how so much pop culture stuff the past decade+ is written in this like idk sparknotes way, like as if all these characters etc are just telling you what they symbolise in this weirdly didactic, dry, upfront way. who tf enjoys this?? write a story ffs Lol 070
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026what what you will abt derrida but he gave us scritti politti which is more than most writers can boast 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026tru tho i think he is self aware of this tbh. he does characterise slave-morality as the strongest force/dominant, but i feel like his objection to it is more that it's kinda Boring and brings about a general sameness/"mediocrity", depriving us of the extreme highs and lows of living for comfort 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026genuinely get a bit dumbfounded looking at job sites sometimes bcos i dont even know what i'm looking for, like what would even be acceptable/worth the hassle of quitting. my job's not so bad relatively (tho working nights has it's own problems), but i don't really want to be doing it forever Lol 040
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026'hyperreality' basically just describes something like what society looks/acts/behaves like when the correspondence theory of truth is ideologically assumed as a given, facilitated by various new technologies which can easily appear as having captured 'the Truth' (audiovisual recording etc) 2/2 011
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026imo while baudrillard is pretty bang on about most things in terms of diagnosing situations, i think where i tend to not follow him is in how bad he thinks some of those problems are, like i kinda think in order to agree with his apocalyptic tenor you need a moral revulsion to 'last men' 130
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i meant more crazy in the ubiquity of his influence like how it wasn't confined to one genre or particular scene per se, like u had very obscure stuff and chart hits all pulling from that mood 000
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026kinda wild how much 70s and 80s uk mainstream music was explicitly written under the influence of ballard 111
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026youtu.be/6DOYTwvCOyUyoutu.beCarcassYouTube video by Laurel Halo - Topic 130
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026thinking maths 'escapes' aesthetics is always suspect to me, in some ways i almost think it's the dominant ideology of aesthetics, where resemblance to mathematics is prized ('internally consistent', follows some kind of logic, contains nothing but what is 'necessary'/'had to be' a film not a book) 110
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026baffles me that badiou makes a fuss about being hostile to 'poetic' forms of philosophy, but then does stuff like calling specific political revolutions 'Truth events' (which despite what he might say, is clearly an 'aesthetic' idea imo) 110
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026queer culture is todd edwards doing weird bjork audio drag on his depressive religious repression album youtu.be/ksvu-x1Icy0youtu.beTodd Edwards - Next to You (Odyssey Cut)YouTube video by NajJan 110
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026youtu.be/H_ZgDnRUL2kyoutu.beCha pari - DaisyYouTube video by ricebeansandegg 020
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026youtu.be/r7PWyDj43K4youtu.beBochum Welt - Blue Part 2YouTube video by user011817 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026youtu.be/kgJAcCgUuiU ♾️youtu.beShower SceneYouTube video by Saint Etienne - Topic 062
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026youtu.be/vZIMyk8iMToyoutu.beFlushYouTube video by suzukiski - Topic 000
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026yeh ive always sort of put it down to him doubling down on his first jazz essay (which i think he was fully sincere about), and not wanting to admit he misapprehended jazz later on 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026maybe ive misunderstood him but ive never rlly got why he doesn't see things like regimented rhythm as having in his terms truth-content about regimented life (ie like how he sees the 'restrained' lives of people in beckett's work as having truth-content) 111
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtu.be/8jC2CqtyNE4youtu.beSoul Capsule - Lady Science (tek mix)YouTube video by From Nord 000
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026youtu.be/7weSJaMCXsEyoutu.beTatamax - Tunic For Crimp (Uchelfa)YouTube video by Mantle of Gets 020
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026youtu.be/g6DuWjnTyAkyoutu.beCyber InsektYouTube video by The Fall - Topic 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026youtu.be/qZs3VJhNgCsyoutu.beGreen Velvet - overcome the fleshYouTube video by Babes Papes 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026youtu.be/zUcKxJIyD_M sample caught me off guard ngl lolyoutu.beMelchior Productions Ltd. - Coming Up [PERL66]YouTube video by Electronic Love Collective 011
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026youtu.be/6yq_qaFwKrIyoutu.beKraftwerk - Expo 2000 - Single, 1999YouTube video by RARE Kraftwerk 001
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026imo a bad habit marxist academics adopt from marx is sacrificing clarity for clever turns of phrase. like i get why 'dictatorship of the proletariat' is a neat little hegelian linguistic trick but it's very easy to misunderstand and make the avg person imagine it means workers becoming tyrants lol 030
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026yeh it's not that there's 0 care for timbre (like how in dance music it's not like ppl dont care for structure beyond functionality), it's more of a dominant/subordinate thing. also stuff that kinda aims to get in the middle like stockhausen and autechre 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ie the way colours can represent the face of someone 'truthfully' is the same thing as how a piano (that undergoes no change itself in the performance) faithfully 'represents' the score as if it were transparent or 'delivering' something 010
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026maybe not so much for ppl into 20thc modernism, but i think the general attitude is analogous to other forms of realism that precede modernism, like how colours 'should' represent clear subject matter in realist painting and not really be subjects in themselves as in modernist painting 210
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026dance music kinda operates on the opposite pole in a way, the 'structure' being quite functional and pragmatic and the timbre being where the progressions happen, vs how timbre is often 'in service' of the musical structure to make it maximally legible and stays very static 130
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i feel like a lot of serious music listeners who are averse to contemporary popular forms of music basically have a kind of timbre-blindness or see timbre as a secondary/decorative element to the 'actual' music 240
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026youtu.be/7oO-fkr25Tsyoutu.beDesire As (2007 Remastered Version)YouTube video by Prefab Sprout - Topic 030
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026blows my mind how people can have phds in philosophy and yet think the great Problems of our Time are 'nihilism', 'postmodernism', and lacking conceptual systems that accommodate 'objective value' 030
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026at least adorno was relatively consistent in his refusal of the culture industry -- what's far more annoying IMO are the people who pick and choose, like oh listening to mahler on youtube doesnt count, watching ingmar bergman doesnt count etc. spineless 000
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026there's a perverse joy in knowing that when someone denounces whole swathes of things as a kind of debased culture, that they too partake of the slop, they just don't realise it can come in the form of artsy films and recordings of symphonies 100
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026ai art methods don't really appeal to me in any way bcos they seem to in effect be trying to bypass what to me is almost the entire function of art on a personal level, ie something which can redirect the glut of experience and information and neurosis into something outside the body 020
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026maybe in order to believe in ai art both positively and negatively, art needs to be seen as a recipe/formula that can be figured out or cracked like a code. i think that's prob why the most vocal opponents of ai art are people with very draughtsman-y, craft-first views of what art 'is' 120
a chronic emeritus @yoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026very weird how the people supposedly trying to resuscitate an authentic notion of class politics end up back in the same aesthetic bingo they purport to be moving against 000
