On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Brendan Nelson wrote: > I guess that if Eshun was on this list he'd defend himself by pointing > out that electronic/futuristic music is so new, comparitively, that the > conceptual framework for describing it - in terms of its construction as > well as of its effect on the listener - is yet to be developed, and so > he's pretty much obliged to write in such a bizarre scat-poetry style > when talking about Drexciya, UR, Alice Coltrane and Parliament. A rock > journalist writing yet another Beatles book has decades of cliches and > reference points to rely on, but someone writing about Drexciya has no > real precedent to rely upon. Eshun certainly did take it to the extreme, > but I think you're right in that, amidst the prosaic flights of fancy, > there are a number of very good and very big ideas which he manages to > put across in that book. > > Brendan
I have SUN and like it. But with that said, I'm pretty sure that if Eshun were here, he'd do something similar to what he did on the Afrofuturism email list I'm on. Send a one sentence statement like: "Please remove me from the list." Then write a book called The 313 Reader. peace lks
