thread for random crit theory bloggers discussing pop music

Comic gold.

hope a lot of #monsters do go and get rowdy on all the assorted bloggers/communist apologists when gaga fails to show

Like Syd says, “words are words.” At the most minimal level, they are words, made up of letters, that our society has decided means something. Who is really to say that a table is a table, when you think about it? Jacques Derrida is the father of the deconstructionism movement, and believed that deconstruction is necessarily complicated and difficult to explain since it actively criticizes the very language needed to explain it. So, is Odd Future taking language and meanings down to the most minimal level? At the very least, they are kind of making me reevaluate what is popular and why, especially with their recent mainstream appearances.

On the other hand, it’s completely possible, and more probable, that I am still trying to justify all the money spent on tuition at a private college. Maybe it’s a combination of both, but finding a real-world application from something I’ve learned in an English class has happened like two times, at most. I think Odd Future just likes to yell controversial shit, and try to scare people for the fun of it. Like Syd alludes to, people don’t need to keep listening if it offends them. It’s like people have an unconscious need to be offended, which feeds Odd Future even more. And now, as I end this little piece, I’m more confused than ever. Modernism, along with deconstructionism, structuralism, and even postmodernism, were not my friends, so revisiting them hasn’t been super fun, but I nonetheless wanted to explore the similarities between modernism and Odd Future.

Who is really to say that a table is a table, when you think about it?

i know someone who begs to differ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4I-8bOJ30g

whoever that person is they do not qualify as a 'crit theory blogger'

we are all crit theory bloggers noooow

I nonetheless wanted to explore the similarities between modernism and Odd Future.

*barf*

i dunno, i had this whole long thing i was working on ages ago about adorno and left 4 dead, i used to think k-punk was occasionally readable, i don't think the crossover of Theory and pop is necessarily unfertile ground?

no but odd future certainly is

stfu, blogger

i did see someone's doctoral thesis on radiohead in waterstone's the other day tho, and mentally went COME ON

(xp)

kinda disappointed w/ the odd future theory glosses hence that rather endearing lil apologia excerpted above

twitter/tumblr & other cultural outpourings = pharmakon
'yes but see their music is engineered by a lesbian' = objet petit-a

*doffs cap*

Bikes-R-Better 2 points 1 month ago

I will attempt to convey what I think feminism might look like. French feminist Luce Irigaray suggests that we live in a world constructed by phallocentric discourse. Miley Cyrus is a clear example of a construction of the phallic mechanisms. She is a commodity to be traded for propagation of relationships between men. Think about those that own the record companies. Irigaray suggests that anything created within the phallocentric discourse that we are all, at this point, living within is in itself phallocentric. In order to transcend this discourse we must attempt to return to a pre-verbal state in order to find what is essentially feminine. To try to represent that which is inherently feminine with a system of language which is inherently phallocentric will only convey an idea of the feminine as it relates to the masculine, and not as it is in and of itself. As someone who identifies as a heterosexual white male, I approach these ideas with humility and an open mind. If my views seem in anyway myopic, obtuse or misinformed, please help me to clarify.

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